School Shootings: Lessons From the Past, and Are We Doomed to Repeat Them?

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Author(s): Patricia A. Goforth (Colorado State University – Global Campus, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gordon A. Crews (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch002

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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In the late 1990s, a series of school shootings shocked the nation. Seemingly innocent children with little to no history of deviant behavior engaged in horrific acts of violence against their fellow students and teachers. The previously held beliefs that schools were safe had been shattered by these acts, and social scientists answered the call to find answers as to how and why these acts occurred. In this chapter, the authors discuss what is known about school shooters in terms of characteristics, behaviors, history, as well as the social dynamics of the communities in which they typically reside. While a profile of a school shooter has been deemed inaccurate, are we doomed to make the same mistakes by overlooking signals or warnings provided by shooters?

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