Table of Contents

Foreword Frank DeAngelis
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 April 20, 1999
Chapter 2 The Columbine Legacy
Chapter 3 We Interrupt This Program to Bring You Breaking News
Chapter 4 Police Responses, Then and Now
Chapter 5 Piecing Together the Past
Chapter 6 Securing Our Nation's Schools
Chapter 7 An Outcry for Change
Chapter 8 The (Failed) Firestorm of Legislation
Chapter 9 The Larger Community Footprint
Chapter 10 The Infamy of the Shooters
Chapter 11 Profiling School and Mass Shooters
Chapter 12 A Piece of Popular Culture History
Chapter 13 Moving Beyond the Columbine Effect
References
Index

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This powerful retrospective analysis of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting aftermath considers society's response to the attack, long-term implications of the shooting, and the ways in which research and related policy must continue to move forward.

About the Author

Jaclyn Schildkraut, PhD, is associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego. Her research interests include mass/school shootings, homicide trends, mediatization effects, moral panics, and crime theories.

Glenn W. Muschert, PhD, is professor of sociology at Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi (UAE). He earned a BS in international studies from Drexel University (USA) and a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder (USA).

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