Rampage: The Social Roots Of School Shootings

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In the decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even probably the most “circle of relatives friendly” American towns and suburbs. These tragedies seem to be the spontaneous acts of troubled, disconnected teens, but this vital book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined within the communities themselves. Rampage challenges the “loner theory” of school violence, and shows why such a lot of adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it.Drawing on more than 200 interviews with town residents, distinguished sociologist Katherine Newman and her co-authors take the reader inside two of probably the most notorious school shootings of the 1990s, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Paducah, Kentucky. In a powerful and original analysis, she demonstrates that the organizational structure of schools “loses” details about troubled kids, and the very closeness of these small rural towns restrained neighbors and friends from communicating what they knew about their problems. Her conclusions make clear the ties that bind in small-town The us.

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