Elk Grove man identified as gunman in NIU killings:
The identity of the NIU gunman has been confirmed that he was, in fact, Steven P. Kazmierczak.
Some people are saying that it’s ironic that Kazmierczak would commit such a horrific travesty, considering he was active in the fields of criminal justice and sociology.
He co-authored a published study on prison policy, entitled “Self-injury in Correctional Settings: ‘Pathology’ of Prisoners or of Prisons?”
According to that paper, Kazmierczak had study interests in “corrections, political violence, and peace and social justice.” At the time he was also said to be writing a paper about the role of religion in the early formation of U.S. prisons.
He also served as vice president of NIU’s Academic Criminal Justice Association and was on the board of a college chapter of the American Corrections Association, which studied jailing policy and the justice system, according to related Web sites.
Personally, I don’t think it’s ironic at all. It sounds like he had a soft spot in his heart for criminals rather than victims. It’s obvious that he didn’t care about victims at all, since he made so many of his own.
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