Causes and Risk Factors of School Shootings, With a Focus on Individual Factors
Causes and Risk Factors of School Shootings, With a Focus on Individual Factors

Summary/Abstract: The unexpectedness and the brutality of school shootings and other amok attacks, the hardly decipherable reasons behind them, highly motivate experts to find explanations. This study attempts to give a general understanding of how we should approach the possible causes of school shooting cases and outlines the web of risk factors that can contribute to the process that leads to commit a school shooting. The paper also offers an overview of the controversial theories regarding the complex link between school shootings (and the broader phenomenon called "amok") and individual psychopathology. Furthermore, the study examines the intriguing connection between suicide and amok, exploring the possible role of a psychological crisis in the etiology of school shooting cases that end by suicide.

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