School Gun Violence in Ya Literature - Representing Environments, Motives, and Impacts

Using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory and Peter Langman's categorical descriptions of school shooters, this book analyzes several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence and the perpetrators while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Schools
Chapter 2: Peers
Chapter 3: Parents
Chapter 4: Media and Technology
Chapter 5: Sociocutural Norms & Gun Access
Chapter 6: Traumatized School Shooters
Chapter 7: Psychopathic School Shooters
Chapter 8: Psychotic School Shooters
Chapter 9: Outliers
Chapter 10: Community Fallout
Chapter 11: School Reactions & Policies
Conclusion

About the author

By Laura A. Brown

Summary

Using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory and Peter Langman’s categorical descriptions of school shooters, this book analyzes several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence and the perpetrators while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers

Product details

• Authors: Laura A. Brown, Brown Laura A.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781793622075
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-207-5
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s & teenage literature studies: general, Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s / Teenage: Personal & social topics, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science & Nature / General