Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1. Introduction; 4 Part I: Case Studies of Lethal School Violence; 5 2. The Copycat Factor: Mental Illness, Guns, and the Shooting Incident at Heritage High School, Rockdale County, Georgia; 6 3. Bad Things Happen in Good Communities: The Rampage Shooting in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and Its Aftermath; 7 4. A Deadly Partnership: Lethal Violence in an Arkansas Middle School; 8 5. No Exit: Mental Illness, Marginality, and School Violence in West Paducah, Kentucky; 9 6. Shooting at Tilden High: Causes and Consequences; 10 7. What Did Ian Tell God?: School Violence in East New York; 11 8. A Cross-Case Analysis; 12 Part II: Understanding and Preventing Lethal School Violence; 13 9. Lethal School Violence in Statistical Context; 14 10. Literature Review; 15 11. Response Strategies: Observations on Causes, Interventions, and Research; 16 References; 17 Appendix A: Case Study Methodology and the Study of Rare Events of Extreme Youth Violence: A Multilevel Framework for Discovery; 18 Appendix B: Biographical Sketches; 19 Index

About the Author

Mark H. Moore, Carol V. Petrie, Anthony A. Braga, and Brenda L. McLaughlin, Editors; National Research Council