{"product_id":"school-shootings-in-american-culture-on-power-propaganda-and-panic-in-targeted-mass-attacks-9798855804522","title":"School Shootings in American Culture: On Power, Propaganda, and Panic in Targeted Mass Attacks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the psychosocial causes of school shootings as a cultural trend and society's strategies to maintain order in their aftermath.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tragedies at Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, have shown that our national strategy to end school shootings is failing. \u003ci\u003eSchool Shootings in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e uniquely applies systems-thinking to school shootings as a cultural trend. Author Lisa Ross exposes not only the design flaws in our most celebrated prevention methods-active shooter response training, threat assessment teams, and target hardening but also the implicit and at times unwarranted assumptions on which they are based. America's makeshift approach to combating school shootings since Columbine is examined, with emphasis on the school resource officer's role. Then through the interdisciplinary themes of power, propaganda, and panic, Ross explores society's psychological processes for controlling social threats. What emerges is a near irreconcilable conflict between post-Columbine active shooter policy and traditional police culture, which is made plain by government investigations into law enforcement's response at Uvalde. Policymakers, school administrators, and researchers and students in the fields of social science will find this book sweeping, compelling, and relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855804522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Lisa Ross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472960450741,"sku":"9798855804522","price":30.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4d93f5bb-ef5b-43dd-a95f-11bd5379bae4.jpg?v=1777444873","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/school-shootings-in-american-culture-on-power-propaganda-and-panic-in-targeted-mass-attacks-9798855804522","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}