3 ways to prevent school shootings, based on research
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Two sociologists from Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence discuss the circumstances that lead to violence in which an attacker picks a target—like a person, group, or school—in advance. They find that the same patterns of concerning behavior emerge, but that’s not all. Read more fromSarah Goodrum andBeverly Kingston onThe Conversation