Ceremonial Violence: Understanding Columbine and Other School Rampage Shootings
- ISBN-10
- 0715638033
- ISBN-13
- 9780715638033
- Category
- Columbine High School Massacre, Littleton, Colo., 1999
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-02
- Publisher
- Duckworth Publishing
- Author
- Jonathan Fast
Description
What drives a child to take the lives of his classmates and teachers? In this fascinating and important book, Professor Jonathan Fast argues that there is an element of ceremony behind the actions of a number of school killings.
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- 2008-09-04
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- Harry N. Abrams
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