Preface
Executive summary
1. Introduction
Part 1. Case studies of lethal school violence. 2. The 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. A 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. A cross-case analysis
Part 2. Understanding and preventing lethal school violence. 9. Lethal school violence in statistical context
10. Literature review
11. Response strategies : observation on causes, interventions, and research
References
Appendix A. Case study methodology and the study of rare events of extreme youth violence : a multilevel framework for discovery / Mercer L. Sullivan and Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Appendix B. Biographical sketches
Index.