School shooters : understanding high school, college, and adult perpetrators

Summary: Examines forty-eight national and international cases of school shootings to dispel the myths, explore the motives, and expose the many factors that drive people to rampage attacks.

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ISBN: 9781442233577
ISBN: 1442233567
ISBN: 9781442233560
Physical Description: xviii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 5. College shooters : targeted attacks -- Targeted attacks by psychopathic shooters -- Gang Lu -- Valery Fabrikant -- Robert Flores -- Targeted attacks by shooters with psychotic and psychopathic traits -- Peter Odighizuwa -- Biswanath Halder -- Amy Bishop -- 6. College shooters : random and ambiguous attacks -- Random attacks by psychopathic shooters -- Charles Whitman -- Wayne Lo -- Random attacks by psychotic shooters -- Seung Hui Cho -- Steven Kazmierczak -- Matti Saari -- Ambiguous attacks -- Edward Allaway -- One Goh -- 7. Aberrant adult shooters -- Young adults who attacked colleges they did not attend -- Mark Lépine -- Jillian Robbins -- Kimveer Gill -- Adults who attacked schools they had attended years before -- Patrick Purdy -- Bruco Eastwood -- Wellington de Oliveira -- Adam Lanza -- Adults who attacked elementary schools to which they had no connection -- Laurie Dann -- James Wilson -- Thomas Hamilton -- 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 -- 9. Preventing school shootings : threat assessment and warning signs -- 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.