School shootings are broadly defined as acts of violence carried out with firearms in which schools are deliberately chosen as the site of violence. Not only do school shootings claim the lives of students and school staff at the time, but they also lead to residual psychological trauma among s...
Data on the factors associated with school shootings in the USA are limited. The public conversation has often suggested several factors that may be linked to these events, however with little empirical support. Aiming to fill this gap, we describe the characteristics of school shooting incidents ...
School shootings have occurred at several levels of education including middle school as in Paducah, Kentucky, high school at Columbine and others, and at the college and university levels as with the University of Texas and Virginia Tech violence. School violence has gained considerable attention na...
The toll from gun violence in American K-12 schools has escalated over the past 20 years. School administrators face pressure to prepare for possible active shootings, and often do so through drills, which can range from general lockdowns to simulations, involving masked “shooters” and simulate...
"Nothing has changed," Westfield High's Anna Sandene told the crowd who held signs saying "Protect Kids, Not Guns," "I shouldn't be prepared for 'when,'" "There have been 1,924 school shootings in the past 50 years," and "A child's right to survive the school day outweighs anyon...
Drake provided chilling examples of the shooter’s elaborate planning for the targeted attack, the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools. "We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to...
This research considers the role of failing masculinity in rampage school shootings committed by adolescents. Examined is the thesis that these young shoot
A series of highly publicized school shootings in the USA generated the misperception of an epidemic of school violence. Fears of school violence stimulate... Cornell,Dewey G. - 《Journal of Educational Administration》 被引量: 96发表: 2003年 Source of firearms used by students in school-associa...
Jones has been notorious for claiming the attack, one of the deadliest school shootings in US history, wasstaged by gun control activists using actors- though he has since acknowledged it was real. But who exactly is Alex Jones and why is he infamous? Sky News takes a ...
In a bid to address this, and in the absence of any official monitoring system, the researchers drew on a systematic analysis of media coverage of school shootings between 2013 and 2015, to see if the frequency of these incidents might be linked to particular state-level factors. These includ...