@article{ref1,
title="School violence around the world: a social phenomenon",
journal="Procedia - social and behavioral sciences",
year="2013",
author="Dumitriu, Camélia",
volume="92",
number="",
pages="299-308",
abstract="Recently, world leaders expressed shock and horror upon hearing of the school shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The main purpose of this article is to gain a better understanding of this new phenomenon and, more specifically, to find answers to two research questions: &quot;Who are the school shooters?&quot; and &quot;What are their motives?&quot; To conduct this study, the &quot;Ecological Framework for Human Development&quot; has been used to study 160 school shootings that occurred worldwide and a custom database was created. Three distinct categories of school shooters have been identified: (i) the &quot;Lost in the Downward Spiral&quot; student; (ii) the &quot;Perfect Student&quot;, and; (iii) the &quot;Social Injustice Collector&quot;. The article presents the first two categories of school shooters and discusses the explanatory power of various theories of aggression.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1877-0428",
doi="10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.676",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.676"
}