@article{ref1,
title="Why do young males attack schools? Seven discipline leaders share their perspectives",
journal="Violence and gender",
year="2014",
author="O'Toole, Moderator: Mary Ellen and Folino, Jorge Oscar and Garbarino, James and Gorelick, Steven M. and Häkkänen-Nyholm, Helina and Meloy, J. Reid and Samenow, Stanton E. and Nishimura, Yuki S.",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="13-18",
abstract="Mass shootings in public places such as political rallies in Arizona, movie theaters in Colorado, and grade schools in Connecticut and Norway are some of the most horrifying events we face in the 21st century. The time has come for us to research, understand, and communicate the causes for perpetrators who wreak such havoc on unsuspecting, unprepared, innocent people. The time has come for a peer-reviewed scientific journal to do everything possible to explore the contributing factors of such violent acts in order to mitigate or prevent them in the future. To this end, Violence and Gender has assembled a multidisciplinary panel of experts to look at the basic information regarding shooters--generally white males between fifteen and thirty years of age--from a wide range of scientific and behavioral perspectives as a foundation for understanding &quot;why.&quot;<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2326-7836",
doi="10.1089/vio.2013.1505",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/vio.2013.1505"
}