School Shooters
Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators
by Peter Langman
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Pub Date Jan 16 2015 | Archive Date Feb 13 2015
Description
Peter Langman is a psychologist whose work on school shooters has received international recognition. His previous book, Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters, was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and was translated into German, Dutch, and Finnish. Langman’s research has been cited in congressional testimony on Capitol Hill and thousands of news outlets. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, CBS-TV, Fox, CNN, the BBC, and over 150 other news outlets in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. Langman has trained thousands of professionals in education, mental health, and law enforcement on identifying potential school shooters. He maintains the largest online collection of materials relating to school shooters at schoolshooters.info. He is in private practice in Allentown, PA.
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Advance Praise
Langman
dives deep into the backgrounds of our nation's school shooters to
analyze their mindsets, discover patterns and dispel common myths. He
uncovers numerous critical misconceptions about school shooters and
presents key findings to strengthen prevention and intervention
practices for keeping schools safe.
— Kenneth S. Trump, M.P.A., President of National School Safety and Security Services, Cleveland, Ohio
Peter
Langman's book is a welcome advance over the existing popular library
of books about school shootings, many of which are grounded in hunch and
fueled by hysteria. This volume features insightful analysis of
schoolyard assailants, with carefully researched case studies, and
should be of immense value to policy-makers and professionals alike. I,
for one, will keep Langman's School Shooters
on my nearby bookshelf of favorites. For years to come, this book
should remain as one of the most important contributions to the
fast-growing body of work on the topic of school violence.
— James
Alan Fox, Ph.D., The Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public
Policy at Northeastern University; author of Violence and Security on
Campus: From Pre-School through College
School Shooters
is a captivating read that reaches beyond the headlines and media
coverage to reveal the larger context of the narrative exploring the
factors that may have contributed to the attack. The quotes from the
attackers at the beginning of each case narrative bring the reader
closer to understanding the mind of the killer. Peter Langman truly
grapples with events from Columbine to Sandy Hook and his passion,
dedication to detail, and ability to draw together complex thoughts in
his typology of psychopathic, psychotic, and traumatized school shooters
provides a wealth of information. Langman leaves no stone unturned and
no narrative unexplored as he lays out for his reader a well-reasoned
and meticulously researched book that helps us all better understand
what drives some to commit these horrific attacks. Work like Peter
Langman’s is key, because understanding past attacks is essential to the
prevention of future attacks.
— Brian
Van Brunt, Ed.D, author, Ending Campus Violence: New Approaches to
Prevention; Senior Vice President for Professional Program Development,
The NCHERM Group
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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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781442233560 |
| PRICE | $36.00 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Kari B, Reviewer
I work in a school and I know the chances of something like a school shooting happening to me are remote, but it is still a topic that worries me. I thought that this book did a great job of showing how many of the shooters lived in difficult situations and experienced abuse and neglect as well as the results of poverty. Some of them are psychotic (as in, out of touch with reality), and some are essentially narcissists or what we might call sociopaths who don't experience empathy. Seeing that there isn't a clear pattern actually made me feel safer, because the training we receive at school has taught us some of the warning signs. I appreciated the brief overview of each shooter that did not emphasize the crime in detail and instead focused on their background and the possible causes of each shooting. It wasn't light reading, but it was helpful to me.
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