Catastrophic School Violence

This book delves deep into school culture and the school shooter. The authors generate a more comprehensive picture of school violence including the personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors that help to generate a school serial killer.

The authors introduce new type of violence classification system, which includes "retributive violence" as well as a new tool for schools to use in preventing catastrophe. This book provides the foundation for building an Early Warning Violence Prevention and Detection System for schools.

Through a new concept of reverse profiling, the authors widen the perspective on the multiple causes of school violence, moving away from a static trait cluster or profile perspective. Increased attention to the processes, patterns, cycles, and other decompensation trends is the key to identifying schools which are vulnerable to violence and potential perpetrators. Awareness can be the best tool in prevention.

Autorentext
Dr. Jared M. Scherz is a clinical psychologist, educational consultant, author and founder of TeacherCoach.com and ufeud.com. Dr. Scherz aspires to improve the health of all schools worldwide.

Dr. Donna Scherz is a forensic psychologist, working with the attorney general in New Jersey for many years to assess violent offenders. Donna Scherz is the co-founder of the Integrated Therapy Center in New Jersey.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Section One: Understanding Violence
Chapter I: Defining the Problem
Chapter II: Violence Re-defined

Section Two: The Perpetrator
Chapter III: Defining the School Shooter
Chapter IV: The Psychosocial 'Profile'
Chapter V: A Shooter's Decline
Chapter VI: Communication across the Hallway

Section Three: School Culture and Violence
Chapter VII: School Culture & Organizational Health
Chapter VIII: Dimensions of Culture
Chapter IX: The Retributionist's Perception of School Culture

Section Four: A New Paradigm
Chapter X: Whole School Transformation
Chapter XI: Constructive Differencing
Chapter XII: The Roots of Profiling
Chapter XIII: Reverse Profiling
Chapter XIV: Conclusions and Summary