Deadly lessons: understanding lethal school violence : case studies of School Violence Committee

1. Introduction

Pt. I. Case Studies of Lethal School Violence

2. Copycat Factor: Mental Illness, Guns, and the Shooting Incident at Heritage High School, Rockdale County, Georgia / Mercer L. Sullivan and Rob T. Guerette

3. Bad Things Happen in Good Communities: the Rampage Shooting in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and Its Aftermath / William DeJong, Joel C. Epstein and Thomas E. Hart

4. Deadly Partnership: Lethal Violence in an Arkansas Middle School / Cybelle Fox, Wendy D. Roth and Katherine Newman

5. No Exit: Mental Illness, Marginality, and School Violence in West Paducah, Kentucky / David Harding, Jal Mehta and Katherine Newman

6. Shooting at Tilden High: Causes and Consequences / John Hagan, Paul Hirschfield and Carla Shedd

7. What Did Ian Tell God?: School Violence in East New York / Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Gina Arias, Moises Nunez, Ericka Phillips, Peter McFarlane, Rodrick Wallace and Robert E. Fullilove III

8. Cross-Case Analysis

Pt. II. Understanding and Preventing Lethal School Violence

9. Lethal School Violence in Statistical Context

10. Literature Review

11. Response Strategies: Observations on Causes, Interventions, and Research. App. A. Case Study Methodology and the Study of Rare Events of Extreme Youth Violence: A Multilevel Framework for Discovery / Mercer L. Sullivan and Minday Thompson Fullilove.