Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Editors’ Introduction
1. Mass Shootings and American Culture and Society / Eric Madfis and Adam Lankford
Part II: Mass Shootings and American Masculinities
2. Mass Shootings and American Masculinity / Tristan Bridges, Tara Leigh Tober, and Melanie Brazzell
3. The Patriarchal Patterns of Male Mass Killers in America: A Typology / Alison J. Marganski
4. Mass Shootings Involving Intimate Partners in the United States: Prevalence and Patterns / Jillian J. Turanovic and Kristen J. Neville
5. Involuntary Celibates, Masculinities, and Violence in American Culture / Sarah E. Daly
6. Structural Strain, Intersectionality, and Mass Murder: A Case Study of the Isla Vista Shooting / Daniel Gascón
Part III: Mass Shootings and White Supremacy in America
7. White Supremacy, Frontier Myths, the “Great Replacement” Theory, and the Making of American Mass Killers / Betsy Friauf and Michael Phillips
8. The Accelerationists: White Supremacist Movement Culture and the Strategy of Mass Shootings in the United States / Stanislav Vysotsky
9. Violent Revenge, Derealization, and Deadly Violence: White Supremacist Websites and Mass Shootings / Simon Gottschalk, Daniel Okamura, Jaimee Nix, and Celene Fuller
10. Mass Violence, White Empathy: How Media Narratives Shape Public Sentiment on Mass Shootings / Scott Duxbury
Part IV: Mass Shootings and American Mass Media and Social Media
11. “I’ll See You on National T.V.!”: America’s Fame-seeking Mass Shooters and Their Global Influence / Jason R. Silva
12. Is No Notoriety Enough?: Attaining Micro-Fame beyond the Mass Media / Stephanie Howells, Ryan Broll, and Patrick F. Parnaby
13. “And What Are All These People Watching?”: The American Celebrity Industry, Genre, and Film Adaptations of School Shootings / Lindsay Steenberg
Part V: Mass Shootings and American Politics
14. The American Politics of Mass Shootings: Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and the Unicorn / Tom Diaz
15. Heated Partisan Rhetoric: An Important Factor in Mass Shootings That Involve Political Figures in the United States / Mark R. Joslyn
16. Support for Gun Rights: Group Identities, Perceptions of Safety, and Attitudes about Responses to Mass Shootings in the United States / Donald P. Haider-Markel, Abigail Vegter, and Patrick J. Gauding
Part VI: Mass Shootings And American Education
17. A Case of American Exceptionalism: The Influence of Super Controllers in Mass School Shootings / Brooke Miller Gialopsos, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Melissa M. Moon, and William A. Stadler
18. Perceptions of Blame for Gun Violence in U.S. Schools: Media Coverage of the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting / Aaron Kupchik, Benjamin W. Fisher, F. Chris Curran, and Salvatore D’Angelo
19. Preventing School Shootings and Healing America’s Bootstrap Trauma with Compassionate and Cooperative Schools / Jessie Klein
Part VII: Mass Shootings, Firearms, and Mental Health in America
20. The Precarious Relationship between Firearm Access and Mass Shootings in the United States: Logically Obvious but Analytically Evasive / Paul Reeping
21. Do Gun Control Laws Prevent Mass Shootings in the United States?: A Review of the Evidence / Emma E. Fridel
22. Gun Purchasing Patterns in the United States: Trends Surrounding Mass Shootings / Lacey N. Wallace
23. Mass Shootings and Mental Health in the United States: Key Dynamics and Controversies / Jillian Peterson and James Densley
Contributors
Index