Why kids kill : inside the minds of school shooters /

In the ten years since the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings have become an alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman argues here tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Langman, Peter F.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Youth and violence > United States. School violence > United States. Violence in adolescence > United States. Violence > United States. School shootings > United States.
Online Access:	Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Note regarding the text
1. School shooters : beyond the sound bite
Psychopathic shooters
2. "I am the law" : two psychopaths
Psychotic shooters
3. "A God of sadness" : a schizotypal youth
4. "None of this is real" : four schizophrenics
Traumatized shooters
5. "Every man's nightmare" : three traumatized children
The bigger picture
6. Beyond the typology
7. Kids caught in the nick of time
8. What can be done to prevent school shootings
Notes
Bibliography
Index.