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

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.

List 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

About the author

By Peter Langman

Summary

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

• Authors: Peter Langman, Peter F. Langman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781538106938
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0693-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Juvenile offenders, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime, school violence