Hello, college grad that actually wrote an award winning paper on this topic! Here’s some knowledge I’d like to share: There’s actually been studies as to why it’s usually white kids, a large conclusion amongst the criminology community is that those that often have more privileged lives (white kids in our society’s case) are less adept to dealing with stress and denial. Whereas minorities and others are more likely to cope and function normally despite stressors because of the constant stressors that come from systematic racism and/or other platforms of more limited priviledge.
TL;DR: It’s usually a white kid because their privilege incacipated their ability to learn how to handle stress/ denial/ whatever without acting out. The less privileged are done used to the bs and thus typically dont turn to extreme measures as coping mechanisms.
EDIT: I had reblogged this and added a link to the paper (which I should’ve done to begin with,) but it’s probably best I just edit my original reblog and add the link (which I also should’ve just done already.)
The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to “pause” its work, an email from a department leader shows.
The modeling team of about two dozen professors at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona was compiling the most robust public model in Arizona of COVID-19.
The email, from DHS bureau chief of public health statistics S. Robert Bailey, came on Monday evening, after Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to begin easing social distancing in the coming days. […]
The state is instead relying on a model from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This model has not been released to the public.
The universities’ model had shown that reopening at the end of May was the only scenario that didn’t dramatically increase cases. […]
Bailey wrote that health department leadership asked the team to “pause” all work on projections and modeling. The department would also be ending access to special data sets the modeling team had been using for their efforts, Bailey said.
Forest Haven is arguably one of the most infamous institutions but for all the wrong reasons. Built in Laurel, Maryland, in 1925, Forest Haven was geared towards teaching patients life skills, including tending crops, sowing, and milking cows. It was originally known as the “District Training School for the Mentally Retarded” and started with good intentions, in fact, it was hailed as being state of the art. However, it wouldn’t be long until funding was cut and abuse and violence would be rife within the institution.
In 1974, orphans from a nearby orphanage that closed ere sent to Forest Haven. While these children had no mental disabilities, they were treated as patients. At an age when environment can have an impact on a child’s upbringing, it isn’t much surprise these children soon became products of their upbringing. At one point, Forest Haven had over 1000 patients. The director even estimates that 1/3rd of the patients didn’t belong there and had just been sent there by their families as they had become a burden.
There were accounts of physical, mental, and even sexual abuse at the institute. Patients were often locked in rooms completely devoid of furniture in nothing other than a diaper. Beds were often stripped of bedding and soaked in urine. Countless patients died from choking on food as they were often force fed while lying down. When a patient died, they would be passed through a basement morgue before being buried in a mass unmarked grave. Hundreds of patients died over the years and one report even said that many were subjected to human experimentation.
Forest Haven eventually closed in 1991 at the orders of a federal judge.
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