Rampage

The Social Roots of School Shootings

By: Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta, Katherine Newman, Wendy Roth

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Paperback | 4 May 2005 | Edition Number 1

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A distinguished sociologist reveals the warning signs of a school shooter--and why we so often miss them

Parkland. Sandy Hook. Columbine. The list of school shootings gets longer by the day, and it often seems like no school is safe. Over the last decades, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most family friendly American towns and suburbs.

We talk about these tragedies as the spontaneous acts of disconnected teens, but this important book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined in the communities themselves. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with town residents, sociologist Katherine Newman and her co-authors take the reader inside two of the most notorious school shootings of the 1990s, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Paducah, Kentucky. In a powerful and original analysis, she demonstrates that the organizational structure of schools encourage administrators to "lose" information about troubled kids, and the very closeness of these small rural towns restrained neighbors and friends from communicating what they knew about their problems.

Rampage challenges the "loner theory" of school violence and shows why so many adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it.

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"School administrators, teachers, school boards, parents and others would be well advised to place Rampage high on their summer reading lists." Boston Globe"

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Preface	p. ix

Explosions	p. 3
The Shooters	p. 22
Explaining Rampage School Shootings	p. 47

Under the Radar	p. 77
The Underbelly of Social Capital	p. 111
The Stranglehold of Adolescent Culture	p. 126
Why Kids Don't Tell	p. 155

Blame and Forgiveness	p. 179
Picking Up the Pieces	p. 207
Testing the Theory	p. 229
Prevention, Intervention, and Coping with School Shootings	p. 271
Epilogue: What Became of the Shooters	p. 299
Data Table for Chapter 10	p. 307
Qualitative Research Design	p. 319
Quantitative Data and Methods	p. 329
Notes	p. 335
Index	p. 389
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