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Mass shootings in America : understanding the debates, causes, and responses / Jaclyn Schildkraut, editor ; foreword by Frank DeAngelis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass murder.
- United States.
- Mass murder--United States.
- Firearms and crime--United States.
- Firearms and crime.
- Violent crimes--United States.
- Violent crimes.
- Gun control--United States.
- Gun control.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 332 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]
- Contents:
- Understanding Mass Shootings in America: The role of firearms in mass shootings
- Mass shooters and mental illness
- Violent media and video game effects
- School shootings
- School security response after mass shootings
- Gender and mass shootings
- Mass shootings as hate crimes
- Mass shootings as acts of terrorism
- Iss ues and challenges for law enforcement responding to mass shootings
- Insight from averted mass shootings
- Responses to mass shootings. Encyclopepdia of mass shooting events, 1966-2016: 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- Mass shootings Q&A: The experts weiogh in: Guns affect society positively and the data proves it
- Gun ownership should be protected: gun stockpiling should not
- Our gun laws are fine, the system that implements them is broken
- Guns are not the problem
- Access to guns leads to increased school violence
- Preventing mass shootings: using theory to drive evidence -based practice
- a problem entailing many policy ideas , but few likelyu to have complete success
- Privotal documents in Mass Shooting Research: Gun Control Act of 1968
- The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
- The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act
- President Clinton's Remarks on School Violence Following Columbine (2001)
- President Bush's Weekly Radio Address Following Virgina Tech (2007)
- Virginia Tech Review Panel Report (2007)
- The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007
- New York City Police Departments Report "Active Shooter: Recommendationsand Analysis for Risk Mitigation" (2007)
- President Obama's Remarks on Gun Violence Following Sandy Hook (2013)
- U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Gun VIoloence (2013)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation's Study of Active Shooter Incidents (2014) final Report of the Sany Hook Advisory Commission (2015)
- Recommended readings
- About the editor and contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mass shootings in America.
- ISBN:
- 9781440856242
- 1440856249
- OCLC:
- 1028603892
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