Mass shootings in America
Subtitle: understanding the debates, causes, and responses
By: Jaclyn Schildkraut, editor ; foreword by Frank DeAngelis
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781440856242
Subjects: Violent crimes; Gun control; Mass murder; Firearms and crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding Mass Shootings in America. The role of firearms in mass shootings; title: Mass shooters and mental illness; title: Violent media and video game effects; title: School shootings; title: School security responses after mass shootings; title: Gender and mass shootings; title: Mass shootings as hate crimes; title: Mass shootings as acts of terrorism; title: Issues and challenges for law enforcement responding to mass shootings; title: Insight from averted mass shootings; title: Responses to mass shootings; title: Encyclopedia of mass shooting events, 1966-2016. 1960s; title: 1970s; title: 1980s; title: 1990s; title: 2000s; title: 2010s; title: Mass shootings Q & A : the experts weigh in. Guns affect society positively and the data proves it; title: Gun ownership should be protected : gun stockpiling should not; title: Our gun laws are fine, the system that implements them is broken; title: Guns are not the problem; title: Access to guns leads to increased school violence; title: Preventing mass shootings : using theory to drive evidence-based practice; title: A problem entailing many policy ideas, but few likely to have complete success; title: Government options to stop school shootings; title: Let the locals decide how to stop school shootings; title: Pivotal Documents in Mass Shooting Research. Gun Control Act of 1968; title: The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; title: The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act; title: President Clinton's Remarks on School Violence Following Columbine (1999); title: Federal Bureau of Investigation's Report on Threat Assessment of School Shooters (2000); title: The Report of Governor Bill Owens' Columbine Review Commission (2001); title: President Bush's Weekly Radio Address Following Virginia Tech (2007); title: Virginia Tech Review Panel Report (2007); title: The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007; title: New York City Police Departments Report Active Shooter : Recommendations and Analysis for Risk Mitigation (2012); title: President Obama's Remarks on Gun Violence Following Sandy Hook (2013); title: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Gun Violence (2013); title: Federal Bureau of Investigation's Study of Active Shooter Incidents (2014); title: Final Report of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission (2015).