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Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootingsreviewed by Brian V. Carolan — 2004 Title: Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings Author(s): Katherine Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta and Wendy Roth Publisher: Basic Books, New York ISBN: 0465051030 , Pages: 352, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Often
times when I visit schools here in the New York City area, I have
to pass through a metal detector, allow my bag to be searched,
submit my driver’s license, sign-in with the police officers
assigned to the school, and get issued a pass that has to be
visible at all times. This hassle seems odd given that violence is
a relative statistical rarity in schools and, generally speaking,
schools are safe places (Anderson, et al., 1999; Donohue,
Shiraldi, and Zeidenberg, 1998). How did it get to this
point? Why were these organizations no longer the comforting,
inviting and relatively open places I remember as a kid?
Many
of these recent safety measures can be traced to the school rampage
shootings of the late 1990s. The striking temporal, geographical
and social clustering of these events suggested that these
incidents were anything but random. Katherine Newman’s
new book, Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings,
explains these events by taking us deeply into the schools and
communities in which... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Brian Carolan
Teachers College, Columbia University E-mail Author BRIAN V. CAROLAN is a Ph.D. candidate at Teachers College, Columbia Univeristy in the Sociology and Education Program.
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