Trigger points : inside the mission to stop mass shootings in America / Mark Follman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062973535 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0062973533 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780062973573 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0062973576 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xviii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-273) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | It's a small world -- Beyond the magic medicine -- On the trail of assassins -- The pathway to violence -- The kids aren't alright -- The program -- A road less traveled -- Vital connections -- The new mindhunters -- Evolutions -- Butterfly effects. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Mass shootings > United States > Prevention. Criminal behavior, Prediction of > United States. Violent crimes > United States > Prevention. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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Covington Branch | 364.15234 F668t 2022 (Text) | 33126012538462 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | 364.15234 F668t 2022 (Text) | 33126012538488 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An award-winning journalist, tracing the evolution of behavioral threat analysis, show how a school district in Oregon implemented a comprehensive and immersive systemic program of threat assessment without punitive and penal measures and how the U.S. should adopt similar techniques. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"From an award-winning Mother Jones editor comes the inside story of the decades-long search for identifiable profiles and warning signs of mass shooters, by way of the specialized teams of psychologists, cops, and ordinary citizens working to predict and prevent violence in America--a fearless, in-depth, and ultimately redemptive account of an epidemic that desperately needs solving"-- - HARPERCOLL
âAn urgent read that illuminates real possibility for change.â âJohn Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood
For the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootingsâa hopeful, myth-busting narrative built on new details of infamous attacks, never-before-told accounts from perpetrators and survivors, and real-time immersion in confidential threat cases, casting a whole new light on how to solve an ongoing national crisis.
Itâs time to go beyond all the thoughts and prayers, misguided blame on mental illness, and dug-in disputes over the Second Amendment. Through meticulous reporting and panoramic storytelling, award-winning journalist Mark Follman chronicles the decades-long search for identifiable profiles of mass shooters and brings readers inside a groundbreaking method for preventing devastating attacks. The emerging field of behavioral threat assessment, with its synergy of mental health and law enforcement expertise, focuses on circumstances and behaviors leading up to planned acts of violenceâwarning signs that offer a chance for constructive intervention before itâs too late.
Beginning with the pioneering study in the late 1970s of âcriminally insaneâ assassins and the stalking behaviors discovered after the murder of John Lennon and the shooting of Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, Follman traces how the field of behavioral threat assessment first grew out of Secret Service investigations and FBI serial-killer hunting. Soon to be revolutionized after the tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech, and expanded further after Sandy Hook and Parkland, the method is used increasingly today to thwart attacks brewing within American communities.
As Follman examines threat-assessment work throughout the country, he goes inside the FBIâs elite Behavioral Analysis Unit and immerses in an Oregon school districtâs innovative violence-prevention program, the first such comprehensive system to prioritize helping kids and avoid relying on punitive measures. With its focus squarely on progress, the story delves into consequential tragedies and others averted, revealing the dangers of cultural misunderstanding and media sensationalism along the way. Ultimately, Follman shows how the nation could adopt the techniques of behavioral threat assessment more broadly, with powerful potential to save lives.
Eight years in the making, Trigger Points illuminates a way forward at a time when the failure to prevent mass shootings has never been more costlyâand the prospects for stopping them never more promising.