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School Gun Violence in YA Literature: Representing Environments, Motives, and Impacts

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Overview

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.

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

  • Title: School Gun Violence in YA Literature: Representing Environments, Motives, and Impacts
  • Author: Laura A. Brown
  • Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Print Publication Date: 2022
  • Logos Release Date: 2022
  • Pages: 140
  • Language: English
  • Resources: 1
  • Format: Digital › Ebook
  • ISBNs: 9781793622082, 9781793622075, 1793622078, 1793622086
  • Resource ID: LLS:9781793622082
  • Resource Type: Monograph
  • Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T23:15:10Z

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

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