How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings

ISBN-13: 9783030371807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str.

Eric Madfis

Recenzje

"In addition to making an important contribution to the scholarly literature on the topic, the inclusion of discussion questions ... as well as a methodological appendix, makes this book a useful resource for students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. ... How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings is a timely and valuable piece of scholarship ... it acts as a springboard for future research in this area." (Erica Bower, Critical Criminology, Vol. 29, 2021)

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DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………………………..…………

FOREWORD by Jack Levin ………………………………………………….……..

FOREWORD by Kristina Anderson ………………………………………………....

AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION……………………. 

CHAPTERS

I. INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………...….….…..

Research Questions and Background on Incidents……………………

Explaining and Reacting to School Rampage….………...…...……….

Understanding School Criminalization and Risk Assessment............... 

II. ASSESSING SCHOOL RAMPAGE ………………………………….….

Distinguishing Terms and Risks……………….……………...………

The Assessment of Evidence in Averted Rampage…………………...

Assessing the Plot’s Detail…………………………………………….

Appraising the Role of Weaponry……………………………………..

Assessing the Role of Personal and Group Characteristics……………

Conclusion……………………………………………………………..

III. CONFIDENCE AND DOUBTS ABOUT ASSESSING RAMPAGE……

Certainty Based on a Convergence of Risk Assessment Criteria……...

Certainty Based on a Lack of Threat Assessment Criteria…………….

Certainty Based on a Presence of Threat Assessment Criteria………...

Remaining Uncertainty despite Risk Assessment……………………..

Conclusion……………………………………………………………..

IV. PREVENTING SCHOOL RAMPAGE ……………………...………….. 

Problematic Rampage Prevention Practices………………………….. 

A Diminished Student Code of Silence…………………………..……

Interventions through Leakage………………………………………...

The Persistence of Bystander Inaction…………………………….......

Implications of Findings………………………………………………

Conclusion…………………………………………………………….

V. CONCLUSION …………………………………………….……………..

Summary and Implications of Findings…………………………...….

Emergent Areas to Prevent and Stop School Rampage Killing……….

Suggested Areas for Future Research……………………………….... 

VI. METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX…………...………………………..  

Operationalizing School Rampage………………………………........ 

Research Design and Sample……………………………………...…. 

Complications of Media-Based Sampling Frame………………......…

On Qualitative Methodology……………………………………...…..

Generalizability in Qualitative Research……………………………...

REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………………….

INDEX…………………………………………………………………………………

O autorze

Eric Madfis is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA. His research focuses on the causes and prevention of school violence, hate crime, and mass murder.  His work has been published in academic journals across a range of disciplines and featured in national and international media outlets. In 2019, the Washington State Legislature utilized his research on the prevention of mass school shootings to inform the passage of a legislative mandate implementing non-biased threat assessment procedures in public schools across Washington state.