Both Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in Crime and Punishment and Richard Wright, in Native Son look to men who have been pushed beyond reason into murder, and both authors ask us what justice means in such a context. The answers that the authors provide are quite different - which should ...

Despite the increasing scientific evidence showing that there is no direct causal link between alcohol and violence, public beliefs continue to remain adamant that alcohol plays a key role in the influence that alcohol has on violent crimes. What has been scientifically proven though, is that alcoho...

Where Have All the Guns Gone? In today's society guns are everywhere. News casts shower the public with stories about gun violence, movie heroes blow away the bad guys, cartoon characters brazenly shower each other with flying bullets, and children shoot each other in school roo...

Gun ControlYou're sitting in your room late one evening when you hear something downstairs. At first you ignore it thinking it's just a noise. Then you hear something even louder and it seems to be approaching your door. You don't know who this could possibly be being that you live by yourself. Fear...

Feb. 2, 1996Feb. 19, 1997Moses Lake, Wash. 2 students and 1 teacher Bethel, Alaska Principal and 1 student killed, 2killed, 1 other wounded when 14-year-old Barryothers wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16, at his highLoukaitis opened fire on his algebra class.school.Oct. 1, 1997Dec. 1, 1997Pearl, Miss. 2 stu...