Project Assignemnt: Juvenile's In Adult Court
For your Project, you will review the School Shooter podcast. For this Assignment, assume that the juvenile shooter killed the teacher, the principal, and two students. As a result, he has been bound over to adult court and sentenced as an adult. Based on the number of individuals killed, he is sentenced to capital punishment. For this Project, you are to apply your own state and case law, identify forensic risk assessment factors, and evaluate your own biases pertaining to the case.
Project: Write a 10- to 12-page paper in which you do the following: Review/research current state laws pertaining to juveniles in capital offenses bound over to adult court. Provide an analysis of your state (California) laws regarding juveniles sentenced as adults. If you are an international student, you may use your local or regional laws. Evaluate risk factors that may have contributed to the shooter's actions. Be sure to include developmental risk factors. Recommend forensic risk assessment instruments that would be appropriate to be used in evaluating risk specific to this case. Evaluate your own personal biases, which may lead to weaknesses regarding how you effectively communicate the results of the forensic assessment where the defendant is hypothetically sentenced to death. Explain ethical concerns that may impact your work on this case.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.