Title: School shooting - Wikipedia
Headings: School shooting
School shooting
Contents
Profiling
Family dynamics
Parental supervision
Younger age
School bullying
Notoriety
Injustice collectors
Mental illness
Aftereffects
Violent media theory
Taking influences from literature
Frequency trends
By region
Africa
Asia
Canada
Europe
Mexico
Oceania
South America
United States
List of school shootings in the United States
Studies of United States school shootings
Cultural references
Political impact
Police response and countermeasures
College and university response and countermeasures
School countermeasures
Armed classrooms
Preventive measures
Countermeasures
See also
References
Sources
External links

Content: School shootings have sparked a political debate over gun violence, zero tolerance policies, gun rights and gun control . Contents
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Profiling
1.1
Family dynamics
1.2
Parental supervision
1.3
Younger age
1.4
School bullying
1.5
Notoriety
1.6
Injustice collectors
1.7
Mental illness
1.8
Aftereffects
1.9
Violent media theory
1.10
Taking influences from literature
2
Frequency trends
3
By region
3.1
Africa
3.2
Asia
3.3
Canada
3.4
Europe
3.5
Mexico
3.6
Oceania
3.7
South America
3.8
United States
3.8.1
List of school shootings in the United States
3.8.2
Studies of United States school shootings
3.8.3
Cultural references
3.8.4
Political impact
4
Police response and countermeasures
5
College and university response and countermeasures
6
School countermeasures
6.1
Armed classrooms
6.2
Preventive measures
6.3
Countermeasures
7
See also
8
References
9
Sources
10
External links
Profiling
The United States Secret Service published the results from a study regarding 37 school shooting incidents, involving 41 individuals in the United States from December 1974 through May 2000. In a previous report of 18 school shootings by the FBI, they released a profile that described shooters as middle-class, lonely/alienated, awkward, Caucasian males who had access to guns. The most recent report cautioned against the assumption that a perpetrator can be identified by a certain 'type' or profile. The results from the study indicated that perpetrators came from varying backgrounds, making a singular profile difficult when identifying possible assailant. For example, some perpetrators were children of divorce, lived in foster homes, or came from intact nuclear families. The majority of individuals had rarely or never gotten into trouble at school and had a healthy social life. Some, such as Alan Lipman, have warned against the dearth of empirical validity of profiling methods. Family dynamics
One assumption into the catalytic causes of school shootings comes from the "non-traditional" household perspective, which focuses on how family structure and family stability are related to child outcomes. Broadly speaking, proponents of this hypothesis claim that family structures such as single mothers, same-sex parents, extended family, or cohabitation are more harmful to the development of a child's mental well-being, than heterosexual, married parents (often equated with the idea of a nuclear family ).