In Marianann, Florida at Dozier School for Boys, hundreds of boys have been sent to this correctional facility because they have been deemed a child of need.
Recently, fifty plus remains of boys have been found on the grounds of this establishment.
Dozier has been known to be a brutal school with multiple ways to punish and discipline their boys when they act out of line. Forms of punishment are too gruesome to disclose.
These deaths did not go unreported or unnoticed by any means. The School would report that the boys who died were accidental deaths or that the child ran away. An example of an "accidental" death would be that a boy fell off a roof while painting.
By now you would think that the police has become suspicious and would construct an investigation. An investigation is exactly what ensued.
On December 9, 2008, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was instructed to investigate this school. They were sent in to find locations of the buried bodies and if there was any crime or illegal activity occurring there.
The Department of Law Enforcement did not release what they discovered until January 2010. In this release, they concluded that the School for Boys was using corporal punishment techniques to handle their students, but nothing criminal was dug up.
This case was not closed after this investigation. In December 2011, Department of Justice decided they wanted to go in and do find as much information as they can on the staff.
The Department found that the staff had multiple violations causing the facility to be shut down. The staff was reported to have failed to protect the rights of the youths, their methods were unconstitutional, and that they did not provide proper rehabilitation. The entire findings can be found here:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-crt-1572.html
Jack Katz is a man who has developed a theory that we he believes we can classify all types of crime. Katz would classify this case under his second reason, collective integrity. This case is a collective integrity because of the amounts of people who could have stepped up to the plate and handled this case, but could not find enough evidence to close this case.
To continue to classify the type of crime that occurred in this incident, we can look at a bio-social-physco model developed by the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. The violence here can be classified under the social section and also the neurocognitive and psychological of this model.
The violence is social due to the people committing these assaults working together in the same facility. It can be described as psychological because the people in charge have something in their brain that makes them think this behavior is acceptable.
In this instance, this is not a case of passing down a crime from one parent to the next. The men involved are all from different families and they banned together and created their own environment where they became their own abusers.
Durkheim's theory is spot on in the Dozier School for Boys crime. Durkheim says on crime, "it always takes the shape of a man who makes an assault on the property or the person of another". This is true because a group of men have an assault on not just one person, but multiple children.
How will the court system handle the men still alive that are involved in these brutal attacks? Will their sentence be too little too late?
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