School Shooters

Peter Langman

doi:10.5771/9781442233577

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-3356-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-3357-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 279
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. 1. Comments on the Cases No access
  2. Comments on Diagnosis No access
  3. Comments on Symptoms and Patterns No access
1. Three Populations of School Shooters No access
2. Three Psychological Types of School Shooters No access
1. A Word on Psychopathic Personalities No access
2. 1. Robert Poulin No access
  2. Brenda Spencer No access
  3. Barry Loukaitis No access
  4. Andrew Golden No access
  5. Eric Harris No access
  6. Robert Steinhäuser No access
  7. Tim Kretschmer No access
3. Comments No access
1. A Word on Psychotic Symptoms No access
2. 1. Luke Woodham No access
  2. Michael Carneal No access
  3. Andrew Wurst No access
  4. Kipland Kinkel No access
  5. Dylan Klebold No access
  6. Alvaro Castillo No access
  7. Pekka-Eric Auvinen No access
3. Comments No access
1. A Word on Trauma No access
2. 1. Eric Houston No access
  2. Gary Scott Pennington No access
  3. James Rouse No access
  4. Evan Ramsey No access
  5. Mitchell Johnson No access
  6. Jason Hoffman No access
  7. Jeffrey Weise No access
  8. Eric Hainstock No access
  9. Asa Coon No access
  10. Thomas “T. J.” Lane No access
3. Comments No access
1. 1. Gang Lu No access
  2. Valery Fabrikant No access
  3. Robert Flores No access
2. Comments No access
3. 1. Peter Odighizuwa No access
  2. Biswanath Halder No access
  3. Amy Bishop No access
4. Comments No access
1. 1. Charles Whitman No access
  2. Wayne Lo No access
2. Comments No access
3. 1. Seung Hui Cho No access
  2. Steven Kazmierczak No access
  3. Matti Saari No access
4. Comments No access
5. 1. Edward Allaway No access
  2. One Goh No access
6. Comments No access
1. 1. Marc Lépine No access
  2. Jillian Robbins No access
  3. Kimveer Gill No access
2. Comments No access
3. 1. Patrick Purdy No access
  2. Bruco Eastwood No access
  3. Wellington de Oliveira No access
  4. Adam Lanza No access
4. Comments No access
5. 1. Laurie Dann No access
  2. James Wilson No access
  3. Thomas Hamilton No access
6. Comments No access
7. 1. Jiverly Wong No access
1. The Significance of the Body No access
2. Military Failures No access
3. Educational Failures No access
4. Occupational Failures No access
5. Romantic Failures No access
6. Frequent and Significant Relocations No access
7. Psychotic Shooters: Sibling Rivalry No access
8. Other Possible Factors No access
9. 1. Peer Support No access
  2. Ideologies and Role Models No access
  3. Media Violence No access
10. Summary No access
1. The Many Faces of School Shooters No access
2. Threat Assessment No access
3. 1. Forms of Leakage No access
  2. School Assignments No access
  3. Warning Signs at Home No access
  4. Warning Signs Online No access
  5. Sudden Purchase of Firearms No access
4. School Employees No access
5. Aberrant Attacks No access
6. The Unpredictability of Victim Selection No access
7. Immediate Aftermath No access
1. Findings versus Conventional Wisdom No access
2. The Magnitude of Their Attacks No access
3. Suicide among School Shooters No access
4. The Typology across the Populations of Shooters No access
5. Other Observations No access
6. Conclusion No access
Notes No access Pages 215 - 258
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 259 - 266
Index No access Pages 267 - 278
About the Author No access Pages 279 - 279