School Shootings in American Culture by Lisa Ross HARDBACK 9798855804515

State University of New York Press

School Shootings in American CultureOn Power, Propaganda, and Panic in Targeted Mass Attacks\nAuthor(s): Lisa Ross\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855804515, 979-8855804515\nSynopsis\nExplores the psychosocial causes of school shootings as a cultural trend and society's strategies to maintain order in their aftermath.\n\nThe tragedies at Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, have shown that our national strategy to end school shootings is failing. School Shootings in American Culture uniquely applies systems-thinking to school shootings as a cultural trend. Author Lisa Ross exposes not only the design flaws in our most celebrated prevention methodsactive shooter response training, threat assessment teams, and target hardening but also the implicit and at times unwarranted assumptions on which they are based. America's makeshift approach to combating school shootings since Columb.