By Daniel B. Wood Would a school counselor have detected the shooter’s mounting frustrations before he attacked? Should students have reacted more forcefully in their own defense? As more details trickle out about the shooting rampage Monday morning that claimed the lives of six students and a receptionist at Oikos University in Oakland, criminologists, behavioral …
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Apr 25 2011
The Columbine legacy – Still strong after all these years
By James Alan Fox, Corrections.com It hardly seems like a dozen years since the April 20, 1999 Columbine massacre in which Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris turned a Denver-suburban high school into their personal battle ground, killing 12 students and one teacher, before committing suicide. Despite the fact that today’s high school students are too …
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Feb 03 2011
UCLA response teams act to prevent violence on campus
By Alexia Boyarsky, UCLA Daily Bruin Four weeks ago, a college dropout with a history of mental instability and threatening behavior walked into a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., and opened fire on the crowd. Although events as violent as this are uncommon at UCLA, they are likely to make people more aware of their …
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Jan 25 2011
From Arizona Shootings, Teachable Moments
By Ed Schmidt , The Huffington Post In April 2007, I was at a national school conference in San Francisco. Coming out of the general session I was surprised to see the name of my alma mater scrolling on a news marquee. March Madness was long over and football season had months to go before …
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