School Shooters

Author : Peter Langman, PhD
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0230101488

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Why Kids Kill by Peter Langman, PhD Pdf

In the horrific aftermath of school shootings, distraught communities struggle to make sense of these seemingly senseless acts. Despite massive media coverage, we know little about what drives young perpetrators or how they rationalize their acts. In this breakthrough analysis, Dr. Peter Langman presents the psychological causes of school shootings and offers unprecedented insight into why certain teens exhibit the potential to kill. He shows how to identify early signs of possible violence and offers preventative measures that parents and educators can take to protect their communities.

Author : Peter Langman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781442233577

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School Shooters by Peter Langman Pdf

School shootings scare everyone, even those not immediately affected. They make national and international news. They make parents afraid to send their children off to school. But they also lead to generalizations about those who perpetrate them. Most assumptions about the perpetrators are wrong and many of the warning signs are missed until it’s too late. Here, Peter Langman takes a look at 48 national and international cases of school shootings in order to dispel the myths, explore the motives, and expose the realities of preventing school shootings from happening in the future, including identifying at risk individuals and helping them to seek help before it’s too late.

Author : Mary Ellen O'Toole
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428996403

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The school shooter a threat assessment perspective. by Mary Ellen O'Toole Pdf

Author : Jillian Peterson,James Densley
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781647002275

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The Violence Project by Jillian Peterson,James Densley Pdf

"Groundbreaking." ―Rachel Louise Snyder, bestselling author of No Visible Bruises An examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies Winner of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award Using data from the writers’ groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence. Frustrated by reactionary policy conversations that never seemed to convert into meaningful action, special investigator and psychologist Jill Peterson and sociologist James Densley built The Violence Project, the first comprehensive database of mass shooters. Their goal was to establish the root causes of mass shootings and figure out how to stop them by examining hundreds of data points in the life histories of more than 170 mass shooters—from their childhood and adolescence to their mental health and motives. They’ve also interviewed the living perpetrators of mass shootings and people who knew them, shooting survivors, victims’ families, first responders, and leading experts to gain a comprehensive firsthand understanding of the real stories behind them, rather than the sensationalized media narratives that too often prevail. For the first time, instead of offering thoughts and prayers for the victims of these crimes, Peterson and Densley share their data-driven solutions for exactly what we must do, at the individual level, in our communities, and as a country, to put an end to these tragedies that have defined our modern era.

Author : Katherine S. Newman,Cybelle Fox,David Harding,Jal Mehta,Wendy Roth
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786722372

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Rampage by Katherine S. Newman,Cybelle Fox,David Harding,Jal Mehta,Wendy Roth Pdf

In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most “family friendly” American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of disconnected teens, but this important book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined in the communities themselves. Rampage challenges the “loner theory” of school violence and shows why so many adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it.

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476729718

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Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Pdf

The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.

Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582438870

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We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Pdf

The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient. Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much–adored teacher in a school shooting two days before his sixteenth birthday. Neither nature nor nurture exclusively shapes a child's character. But Eva was always uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood. Did her internalized dislike for her own son shape him into the killer he’s become? How much is her fault? Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with Kevin’s horrific rampage, all in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. A piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as “impossible to put down,” is a stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family.

Author : Caroline Pignat
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780143196945

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Shooter by Caroline Pignat Pdf

The Breakfast Club meets We Need to Talk About Kevin A lockdown catches five grade 12 students by surprise and throws them together in the only unlocked room on that empty third floor wing: the boys' washroom. They sit in silence, judging each other by what they see, by the stories they've heard over the years. Stuck here with them--could anything be worse? There's Alice: an introverted writer, trapped in the role of big sister to her older autistic brother, Noah. Isabelle: the popular, high-achieving, student council president, whose greatest performance is her everyday life. Hogan: an ex-football player with a troubled past and a hopeless future. Xander: that socially awkward guy hiding behind the camera, whose candid pictures of school life, especially those of Isabelle, have brought him more trouble than answers. Told in five unique voices through prose, poetry, text messages, journals, and homework assignments, each student reveals pieces of their true story as they wait for the drill to end. But this modern-day Breakfast Club takes a twist when Isabelle gets a text that changes everything: NOT A DRILL!! Shooter in the school! Suddenly, the bathroom doesn't seem so safe anymore. Especially when they learn that one of them knows more about the shooter than they realized...

Author : Silke Braselmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110647624

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The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse by Silke Braselmann Pdf

Ever since the 1990s, school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality, their suddenness, and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes, the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglected thus far. However, in a discourse in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are increasingly blurred, this book shows how fiction shapes and structures, challenges and disrupts cultural processes of meaning-making. Hence, for a better understanding of the school shooting phenomenon, the relevance of fiction on all levels of discourse construction requires thorough analysis. This book therefore develops a new approach to the role of fiction for contemporary forms of excessive violence. By combining narrative theory with insights from sociology and other disciplines, it provides the means for apprehending and describing the relevance of fiction for contemporary discourses. Furthermore, it provides exemplary analyses of more specific functions of literary and filmic fictionalizations of school shootings between 2000 and 2016.

Author : Peter Langman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578922991

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Warning Signs by Peter Langman Pdf

Warning Signs provides practical, research-based guidance on anticipating and preventing school shootings.

Author : Dave Cullen
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780446552219

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Columbine by Dave Cullen Pdf

Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset. "The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . ." So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year. What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors. Expanded with a New Epilogue

Author : Ronald M. Holmes,Stephen T. Holmes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761920927

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Murder in America by Ronald M. Holmes,Stephen T. Holmes Pdf

This revised and updated edition of Murder in America presents a pragmatic examination of both common and unusual acts of homicide in the United States.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780443405785

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Introduction to 2023 Covenant School shooting by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

In August 2023, a gunman perpetrated a shooting at the Covenant School in Charlottesville, Virginia, resulting in the deaths of 19 students and teachers. The shooting was the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time. The events of the shooting were chronicled in the e-book Introduction to 2023 Covenant School Shooting authored by journalist and author Nick Spencer. Spencer’s book is a comprehensive examination of the tragic events that occurred that day. The book chronicles the events of the shooting, including the shooter’s background, preparation, and motivation. The author also looks at the actions of the first responders who arrived on the scene, the emergency procedures utilized by the school, and the mental health repercussions experienced by survivors. Spencer also provides a timeline of the events, a list of the victims, and a discussion on gun control laws and school safety policies. Overall, Introduction to 2023 Covenant School Shooting is a thorough examination of one of the most tragic events in American history.

Author : T.J. Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684510436

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Once a Shooter by T.J. Stevens Pdf

Once, a shooter walked alone through the front doors of an unsuspecting high school in Burke, Virginia. He was young. Troubled. Tormented. Drowning in a cavernous abyss so deep that light itself seemed no longer to exist. It is an all-too-familiar story these days. After all, once a shooter enters a school or another public space, chaos always follows. Or does it? Once A Shooter chronicles the astonishing story of TJ Stevens, a suicidal high school gunman who unexpectedly experiences a miraculous transformation in the exact moment he is about to execute nine hostages and then himself. All author royalties will be donated to a charity that hosts events for troubled teens.

Author : Terri Roberts,Jeanette Windle
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441229052

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Forgiven by Terri Roberts,Jeanette Windle Pdf

Mother of Amish Schoolhouse Shooter Gives Message of Hope and Healing Who would have believed all the beauty God would create over the nine years since that awful day. On October 2, 2006, a gunman entered an Amish one-room schoolhouse, shooting ten girls, killing five, then finally taking his own life. This is his mother's story. Not only did she lose her precious son through suicide, but she also lost her understanding of him as an honorable man. Her community and the world experienced trauma that no family or community should ever have to face. But this is, surprisingly, a story of hope and joy--of God revealing his grace in unexpected places. Today Terri lives in harmony with the Amish and has built lasting relationships that go beyond what anyone could have thought possible. From the grace that the Amish showed Terri's family from day one, to the visits and ongoing care Terri has given to the victims and their families, no one could have foreseen the love and community that have been forged from the fires of tragedy. Let Terri's story inspire and encourage you as you discover the wonder of forgiveness and the power of God to bring beauty from ashes.