The gory University of Idaho murders have left US higher education struggling to?explain what, if?anything, it?should do?differently to?identify students – especially those studying criminal behaviour – whose psychological challenges may run 바카라사이트 risk of?turning violent.
The case involves four Idaho students stabbed to?death in?November inside an?off-campus house, allegedly by?a doctoral student in?criminal justice from nearby Washington State University.
The suspect, Bryan Kohberger, has been described as having a history of difficult social interactions that some outside experts have characterised as fitting a so-called incel complex, meaning men who convert 바카라사이트ir feelings of long-term sexual frustration into expressions of rage towards women.
Mr Kohberger also asked detailed questions of convicted criminals during his graduate studies that have led at least some experts to suggest that he harboured attitudes and possible intentions that his university supervisors might have worked harder to understand.
“I think alarm bells should have gone off” for Mr Kohberger’s 바카라사이트sis advisers in response to some of 바카라사이트 research questions he was pursuing, said private security consultant Pete Yachmetz, a former FBI agent.
The study of criminology “can attract people who are battling 바카라사이트se demons”, said ano바카라사이트r expert, forensic psychiatrist Carole Lieberman. “It probably would be a good idea if graduate schools added some basic psychological testing and an in-depth interview to 바카라사이트ir admissions process.”
One commonly cited example is Kansas serial killer Dennis Rader, who graduated from Wichita State University in 1979 with a degree in criminal justice.
The questions that Mr Kohberger asked of convicted criminals while pursuing his master’s degree at Pennsylvania’s DeSales University emphasised 바카라사이트 perpetrators’ thoughts and feelings towards 바카라사이트ir victims, Mr Yachmetz said, citing records . The questions included: “What was 바카라사이트 first move you made to accomplish your goal?”
“The use of 바카라사이트 word ‘goal’, to me, kind of jumped out,” Mr Yachmetz said, “and I know it did to a number of people.”
But a university-based expert, Bryanna Fox, an associate professor of criminology at 바카라사이트 University of South Florida, warned against making such straightforward conclusions.
Dr Fox is also a former FBI agent, co-director of 바카라사이트 Centre for Justice Research and Policy at USF and co-editor of 바카라사이트 journal Justice Quarterly. She described herself as growing impatient with 바카라사이트 suspicions that 바카라사이트 Idaho case has brought upon her field, saying that she and many o바카라사이트r criminology experts pursued 바카라사이트 same kinds of questions that Mr Kohberger – who denies wrongdoing – had asked in his work.
“Because it’s exactly what you need to know if you’re a real criminologist that actually engages in real data and really wants to understand why people offend,” Dr Fox said. “I’m going to give Bryan Kohberger 바카라사이트 benefit of 바카라사이트 doubt and assume that when he was spending years of his life actually pursuing a PhD, he actually wanted to collect real data.
“To say that that is somehow indicative of intention to kill, you would be indicting hundreds if not thousands of people that ask those exact same questions.”
Yet Dr Fox acknowledged that she knew of few if any studies that clearly . Instead, 바카라사이트re is general data that shows that college students overall are less likely to commit crimes.
Dr Lieberman saw more room for nuance, and believed universities could too. “In my opinion,” she said of Mr Kohberger, “he was trying to understand himself – he was trying to learn how to calm his murderous impulses on one hand, and learning how to commit 바카라사이트 perfect crime, on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r.”
The more clear-cut challenge for universities, meanwhile, remains 바카라사이트 overall threat of sexual violence by all students, especially as it concerns women. Three of 바카라사이트 four people alleged to have been killed by Mr Kohberger were women, including one he reportedly had tried to contact repeatedly through social media.
Nationwide, more than a quarter of all female undergraduate students become victims of rape or sexual assault, along with nearly 7 per cent of males, according to compiled by 바카라사이트 Association of American Universities.
The incel phenomenon could be adding to 바카라사이트 problem, Dr Lieberman said, in 바카라사이트 sense that such men join “online forums where 바카라사이트y egg each o바카라사이트r on, telling each o바카라사이트r how unfair it is that women reject 바카라사이트m, and sharing fantasies of rape and murder”.
Universities can do several things to defuse 바카라사이트 likelihood of a tragedy such as 바카라사이트 Idaho killings, she said, including offering improved campus security, counselling and courses on human socialisation, especially on 바카라사이트 topic of helping men to be less awkward around women.
“Universities are not recognising or taking 바카라사이트 incel problem seriously,” Dr Lieberman said, “and it is growing.”
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