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School Gun Violence in YA Literature

Representing Environments, Motives, and Impacts

Laura A. Brown

Since Columbine, the topic of school shootings has become ever more prevalent in the media, in research, and in fiction. This book provides analyses of several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence (and those who perpetrate it) while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers. Employing Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, Laura A. Brown examines how the texts frame particular settings and events as important to the development of young people as a way of accounting for the shootings. Likewise, psychologist Peter Langman’s classification of the three populations of school shooters is utilized as a framework to analyze the characterization of fictional shooters in the texts. The author argues that these texts, while not easy to read, are important, as they problematize the ways we think about, approach, and react to school shootings and the students who commit such acts.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 140 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-7936-2207-5 • Hardback • June 2022 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-7936-2208-2 • eBook • May 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
Subjects: Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Psychology / General, Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / General

Laura A. Brown is associate professor at the State University of New York, and department chair of secondary education.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Schools

Chapter 2: Peers

Chapter 3: Parents

Chapter 4: Media and Technology

Chapter 5: Sociocutural Norms & Gun Access

Chapter 6: Traumatized School Shooters

Chapter 7: Psychopathic School Shooters

Chapter 8: Psychotic School Shooters

Chapter 9: Outliers

Chapter 10: Community Fallout

Chapter 11: School Reactions & Policies

Conclusion

School Gun Violence in YA Literature

Representing Environments, Motives, and Impacts

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Since Columbine, the topic of school shootings has become ever more prevalent in the media, in research, and in fiction. This book provides analyses of several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence (and those who perpetrate it) while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers. Employing Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, Laura A. Brown examines how the texts frame particular settings and events as important to the development of young people as a way of accounting for the shootings. Likewise, psychologist Peter Langman’s classification of the three populations of school shooters is utilized as a framework to analyze the characterization of fictional shooters in the texts. The author argues that these texts, while not easy to read, are important, as they problematize the ways we think about, approach, and react to school shootings and the students who commit such acts.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 140 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-7936-2207-5 • Hardback • June 2022 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
    978-1-7936-2208-2 • eBook • May 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Psychology / General, Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / General
Author
Author
  • Laura A. Brown is associate professor at the State University of New York, and department chair of secondary education.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction

    Chapter 1: Schools

    Chapter 2: Peers

    Chapter 3: Parents

    Chapter 4: Media and Technology

    Chapter 5: Sociocutural Norms & Gun Access

    Chapter 6: Traumatized School Shooters

    Chapter 7: Psychopathic School Shooters

    Chapter 8: Psychotic School Shooters

    Chapter 9: Outliers

    Chapter 10: Community Fallout

    Chapter 11: School Reactions & Policies

    Conclusion

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