School Shootings: The Warning Signs [1.1]

  1. This article was published in the winter–spring 2012 edition of Forensic Digest. It is reprinted with the permission of Forensic Digest.
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Ten Lessons Learned from School Shootings and Foiled Attacks

  1. This is an excerpt from Chapter 8, “What Can Be Done to Prevent School Shootings,” in Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters.
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The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective

  1. This is the FBI report on school shootings (primary author, Mary Ellen O’Toole).
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Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates

  1. This document from 2002 is the result of collaboration between the Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education.
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The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States

  1. This document from 2002 is the result of collaboration between the Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education.

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Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence: Information Students Learn May Prevent a Targeted Attack

  1. This is another collaboration between the Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education. The focus of the 2008 study was investigating students with prior knowledge of impending school attacks.

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