Full name: Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Author: Peter Langman Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, True crime, Psychology, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780230608023 9780230101487 0230608027 0230101488

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a new and alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman, argues here that psychological causes are responsible. Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, Langman offers surprising reasons for why some teens become violent. Langman divides shooters into three categories, and he discusses the role of personality, trauma, and psychosis among school shooters. From examining the material evidence of notorious school shooters at Columbine and Virginia Tech to addressing the mental states of the violent youths he treats, Langman shows how to identify early signs of homicide-prone youth and what preventive measures educators, parents and communities can take to protect themselves from the tragedy. Similar books: The Murderer Next Door by David M. Buss Without Conscience by Robert D. Hare The Mask of Sanity by Hervey M. Cleckley The Psychopath Whisperer by Kent A. Kiehl The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam Why They Kill by Richard Rhodes The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert K. Ressler Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky The Serial Killer Files by Harold Schechter The Evil That Men Do by Stephen G. Michaud Signature Killers by Robert D. Keppel Hunting Humans by Elliott Leyton Alone With the Devil by Ronald Markman Ted Bundy by Stephen G. Michaud I Have Lived in the Monster by Robert K. Ressler Erased by Marilee Strong Talking with Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee Savage Spawn by Jonathan Kellerman