School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators

School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators

by Peter Langman
School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators

School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators

by Peter Langman

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Overview

School shootings scare everyone, even those not immediately affected. But they also lead to generalizations about perpetrators. Here, Peter Langman takes a look at 48 cases of school shootings in order to dispel the myths, explore the motives, and expose the realities of prevention, including identifying at-risk individuals before it’s too late.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538106938
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 05/25/2017
Pages: 298
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Peter Langman is a psychologist whose work on school shooters has received international recognition. His previous book, Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters, was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and was translated into German, Dutch, and Finnish. Langman’s research has been cited in congressional testimony on Capitol Hill and thousands of news outlets. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, CBS-TV, Fox, CNN, the BBC, and over 150 other news outlets in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. Langman has trained thousands of professionals in education, mental health, and law enforcement on identifying potential school shooters. He maintains the largest online collection of materials relating to school shooters at schoolshooters.info. He is in private practice in Allentown, PA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Other Works by Author Introduction Chapter 1: Laying the Foundation Secondary School Shooters Chapter 2: Psychopathic Secondary School Shooters Chapter 3: Psychotic Secondary School Shooters Chapter 4: Traumatized Secondary School Shooters College Shooters Chapter 5: College Shooters: Targeted Attacks Chapter 6: College Shooters: Random and Ambiguous Attacks Aberrant Adult Shooters Chapter 7: Aberrant Adult Shooters Patterns and Prevention Chapter 8: Patterns in the Lives of School Shooters Chapter 9: Preventing School Shootings: Threat Assessment and Warning Signs Chapter 10: Key Findings Bibliography
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