School Shooters : Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators.
Langman, Peter.
School Shooters : Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (299 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Comments on the Cases -- Comments on Diagnosis -- Comments on Symptoms and Patterns -- 1 Laying the Foundation -- Three Populations of School Shooters -- Three Psychological Types of School Shooters -- 2 Psychopathic Secondary School Shooters -- A Word on Psychopathic Personalities -- Attacks by Psychopathic Secondary School Shooters -- Robert Poulin -- Brenda Spencer -- Barry Loukaitis -- Andrew Golden -- Eric Harris -- Robert Steinhäuser -- Tim Kretschmer -- Comments -- 3 Psychotic Secondary School Shooters -- A Word on Psychotic Symptoms -- Attacks by Psychotic Secondary School Shooters -- Luke Woodham -- Michael Carneal -- Andrew Wurst -- Kipland Kinkel -- Dylan Klebold -- Alvaro Castillo -- Pekka-Eric Auvinen -- Comments -- 4 Traumatized Secondary School Shooters -- A Word on Trauma -- Attacks by Traumatized Secondary School Shooters -- Eric Houston -- Gary Scott Pennington -- James Rouse -- Evan Ramsey -- Mitchell Johnson -- Jason Hoffman -- Jeffrey Weise -- Eric Hainstock -- Asa Coon -- Thomas "T. J." Lane -- Comments -- 5 College Shooters -- Targeted Attacks by Psychopathic Shooters -- Gang Lu -- Valery Fabrikant -- Robert Flores -- Comments -- Targeted Attacks by Shooters with Psychotic and Psychopathic Traits -- Peter Odighizuwa -- Biswanath Halder -- Amy Bishop -- Comments -- 6 College Shooters -- Random Attacks by Psychopathic Shooters -- Charles Whitman -- Wayne Lo -- Comments -- Random Attacks by Psychotic Shooters -- Seung Hui Cho -- Steven Kazmierczak -- Matti Saari -- Comments -- Ambiguous Attacks -- Edward Allaway -- One Goh -- Comments -- 7 Aberrant Adult Shooters -- Young Adults Who Attacked Colleges They Did Not Attend -- Marc Lépine -- Jillian Robbins -- Kimveer Gill -- Comments. Adults Who Attacked Schools They Had Attended Years Before -- Patrick Purdy -- Bruco Eastwood -- Wellington de Oliveira -- Adam Lanza -- Comments -- Adults Who Attacked Elementary Schools to Which They Had No Connection -- Laurie Dann -- James Wilson -- Thomas Hamilton -- Comments -- Adult Whose Attack Was in an Atypical Educational Setting -- Jiverly Wong -- 8 Patterns among School Shooters -- The Significance of the Body -- Military Failures -- Educational Failures -- Occupational Failures -- Romantic Failures -- Frequent and Significant Relocations -- Psychotic Shooters: Sibling Rivalry -- Other Possible Factors -- External Influences -- Peer Support -- Ideologies and Role Models -- Media Violence -- Summary -- 9 Preventing School Shootings -- The Many Faces of School Shooters -- Threat Assessment -- What Are the Warning Signs? -- Forms of Leakage -- School Assignments -- Warning Signs at Home -- Warning Signs Online -- Sudden Purchase of Firearms -- School Employees -- Aberrant Attacks -- The Unpredictability of Victim Selection -- Immediate Aftermath -- 10 Key Findings -- Findings versus Conventional Wisdom -- The Magnitude of Their Attacks -- Suicide among School Shooters -- The Typology across the Populations of Shooters -- Other Observations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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.
9781442233577
School violence -- Prevention.
Electronic books.
LB3013.3 -- .L357 2014eb
371.7/82
School Shooters : Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (299 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Comments on the Cases -- Comments on Diagnosis -- Comments on Symptoms and Patterns -- 1 Laying the Foundation -- Three Populations of School Shooters -- Three Psychological Types of School Shooters -- 2 Psychopathic Secondary School Shooters -- A Word on Psychopathic Personalities -- Attacks by Psychopathic Secondary School Shooters -- Robert Poulin -- Brenda Spencer -- Barry Loukaitis -- Andrew Golden -- Eric Harris -- Robert Steinhäuser -- Tim Kretschmer -- Comments -- 3 Psychotic Secondary School Shooters -- A Word on Psychotic Symptoms -- Attacks by Psychotic Secondary School Shooters -- Luke Woodham -- Michael Carneal -- Andrew Wurst -- Kipland Kinkel -- Dylan Klebold -- Alvaro Castillo -- Pekka-Eric Auvinen -- Comments -- 4 Traumatized Secondary School Shooters -- A Word on Trauma -- Attacks by Traumatized Secondary School Shooters -- Eric Houston -- Gary Scott Pennington -- James Rouse -- Evan Ramsey -- Mitchell Johnson -- Jason Hoffman -- Jeffrey Weise -- Eric Hainstock -- Asa Coon -- Thomas "T. J." Lane -- Comments -- 5 College Shooters -- Targeted Attacks by Psychopathic Shooters -- Gang Lu -- Valery Fabrikant -- Robert Flores -- Comments -- Targeted Attacks by Shooters with Psychotic and Psychopathic Traits -- Peter Odighizuwa -- Biswanath Halder -- Amy Bishop -- Comments -- 6 College Shooters -- Random Attacks by Psychopathic Shooters -- Charles Whitman -- Wayne Lo -- Comments -- Random Attacks by Psychotic Shooters -- Seung Hui Cho -- Steven Kazmierczak -- Matti Saari -- Comments -- Ambiguous Attacks -- Edward Allaway -- One Goh -- Comments -- 7 Aberrant Adult Shooters -- Young Adults Who Attacked Colleges They Did Not Attend -- Marc Lépine -- Jillian Robbins -- Kimveer Gill -- Comments. Adults Who Attacked Schools They Had Attended Years Before -- Patrick Purdy -- Bruco Eastwood -- Wellington de Oliveira -- Adam Lanza -- Comments -- Adults Who Attacked Elementary Schools to Which They Had No Connection -- Laurie Dann -- James Wilson -- Thomas Hamilton -- Comments -- Adult Whose Attack Was in an Atypical Educational Setting -- Jiverly Wong -- 8 Patterns among School Shooters -- The Significance of the Body -- Military Failures -- Educational Failures -- Occupational Failures -- Romantic Failures -- Frequent and Significant Relocations -- Psychotic Shooters: Sibling Rivalry -- Other Possible Factors -- External Influences -- Peer Support -- Ideologies and Role Models -- Media Violence -- Summary -- 9 Preventing School Shootings -- The Many Faces of School Shooters -- Threat Assessment -- What Are the Warning Signs? -- Forms of Leakage -- School Assignments -- Warning Signs at Home -- Warning Signs Online -- Sudden Purchase of Firearms -- School Employees -- Aberrant Attacks -- The Unpredictability of Victim Selection -- Immediate Aftermath -- 10 Key Findings -- Findings versus Conventional Wisdom -- The Magnitude of Their Attacks -- Suicide among School Shooters -- The Typology across the Populations of Shooters -- Other Observations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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.
9781442233577
School violence -- Prevention.
Electronic books.
LB3013.3 -- .L357 2014eb
371.7/82