Description
| Product ID: | 9781538106938 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | School Shooters |
| Subtitle: | Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Langman |
| Page Count: | 298 |
| Subjects: | Causes and prevention of crime, Causes & prevention of crime, Juvenile offenders, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Juvenile offenders, Child & developmental psychology, Criminal or forensic psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating School shootings scare everyone, even those not immediately affected. But they also lead to generalizations about perpetrators. Here, Peter Langman takes a look at 48 cases of school shootings in order to dispel the myths, explore the motives, and expose the realities of prevention, including identifying at-risk individuals before it’s too late. School shootings scare everyone, even those not immediately affected. They make national and international news. They make parents afraid to send their children off to school. But they also lead to generalizations about those who perpetrate them. Most assumptions about the perpetrators are wrong and many of the warning signs are missed until it’s too late. Here, Peter Langman takes a look at 48 national and international cases of school shootings in order to dispel the myths, explore the motives, and expose the realities of preventing school shootings from happening in the future, including identifying at risk individuals and helping them to seek help before it’s too late. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-05-25 |
