Virginia Tech Massacre Case Study

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Yes, I do believe that biological and psychologically theories can both be applied to the Virginia Tech massacre; I think that both theories had a 50-50 chance of Cho’s characteristics. Williams mentioned in his one of his three somatotypes proposed that being an “introverted” reclusive person can be of many reasons for criminal behaviors (as cited in Hagan, 2013, p. 134). According to Hagan (2013), Cho “was a “loner,” and he felt that he was picked on and made fun of; he was bullied due to speech difficulties” (p. 216). This to me further solidifies Williams’s somatotypes theory of being a sensitive person who can snap at any given moment, for reasons such as poked many times like he was, having a different accent, race, in a surrounding