School Shootings in American Culture: On Power, Propaganda, and Panic in Targeted Mass Attacks

Explores the psychosocial causes of school shootings as a cultural trend and society's strategies to maintain order in their aftermath.

The tragedies at Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, have shown that our national strategy to end school shootings is failing. School Shootings in American Culture uniquely applies systems-thinking to school shootings as a cultural trend. Author Lisa Ross exposes not only the design flaws in our most celebrated prevention methods—active shooter response tr...