Parental Responsibility and Crime The shooting rampage at Columbine High School,

However, by targeting the parents and pinning the burden solely on them may be insufficient, or even useless in preventing further outbreaks of school shootings. There are forces larger than the parents, which are influencing the actions of these children. Because of social, economic and demographic changes, the significance of the institution of the family has diminished over the years. Increasingly, the role of the family has been replaced by the institutions of schools, experts from psychological fields, popular music, film, television and the Internet. No longer do people live in a tiny ethnic enclave, dependent upon other family members for our socio-economic support; now the world has metamorphosed into a melting-pot society, where a diversity of ideas and culture blend and collide. The information superhighway facilitates the

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ntion into family life is the allure of popular media. Children are seduced by the ideas and images expounded in popular music, films, television, advertising (Hacker, 1997, p. 37) and more recently, the internet. As a law scholar, Marci Hamilton cited in Schrof (1999, p. 62), many parties, apart from the parents, can be held responsible for violent crimes committed by children. Some parents, whose children were killed in earlier school shootings are suing all of these parties, including school officials, makers of violent computer games and movies and gun makers (Schrof, 1999, p. 62). Much of the loss of the ethnic culture, and with it familial rules and expectations defining the role of each member, can be attributed to the social and demographic changes, which has occurred over time. Because of the growth of suburbia, occupational mobility and immigration, ethnic neighborhoods have disintegrated in many areas (Gans, 1962, p. 259). Furthermore, because they lack the fundamental institutions and services necessary for survival, ethnic neighborhoods cannot remain in complete isolation from the greater society; they have to interact with other ethnic cultures. Therefore, people from different cultures interact in schools, churches
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