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

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

Patricia A. Goforth
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522562467|ISBN10: 152256246X|EISBN13: 9781522562474
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch002
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Goforth, Patricia A. "School Shootings: Lessons From the Past, and Are We Doomed to Repeat Them?." Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education, edited by Gordon A. Crews, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 52-73. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch002

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Goforth, P. A. (2019). School Shootings: Lessons From the Past, and Are We Doomed to Repeat Them?. In G. Crews (Ed.), Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education (pp. 52-73). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch002

Chicago

Goforth, Patricia A. "School Shootings: Lessons From the Past, and Are We Doomed to Repeat Them?." In Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education, edited by Gordon A. Crews, 52-73. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch002

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Abstract

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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