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Why kids kill : inside the minds of school shooters / Peter Langman.
Van Pelt Library HQ799.2.V56 L365 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langman, Peter F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth and violence--United States.
- Youth and violence.
- School shootings.
- Violence in adolescence.
- School violence.
- United States.
- School violence--United States.
- Violence in adolescence--United States.
- Violence--United States.
- Violence.
- School shootings--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 231 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 School Shooters: Beyond the Sound Bite 1
- Psychopathic Shooters
- 2 "I Am the Law": Two Psychopaths 21
- Psychotic Shooters
- 3 "A God of Sadness": A Schizotypal Youth 49
- 4 "None of This Is Real": Four Schizophrenics 73
- Traumatized Shooters
- 5 "Every Man's Nightmare": Three Traumatized Children 105
- The Bigger Picture
- 6 Beyond the Typology 129
- 7 Kids Caught in the Nick of Time 155
- 8 What Can Be Done to Prevent School Shootings 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230608027
- 9780230608023
- OCLC:
- 240189360
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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