Teacher and Peer Responses to Warning Behavior in 11 School Shooting Cases in Germany.
case study
school shooting
targeted school violence
threat assessment
warning behaviors
Journal
Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
19
12
2019
accepted:
15
06
2020
entrez:
28
8
2020
pubmed:
28
8
2020
medline:
28
8
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Warning behavior prior to an act of severe targeted school violence was often not recognized by peers and school staff. With regard to preventive efforts, we attempted to identify barriers to information exchange in German schools and understand mechanisms that influenced the recognition, evaluation, and reporting of warning behavior through a teacher or peer. Our analysis is based on inquiry files from 11 cases of German school shootings that were obtained during the 3-year research project "Incident and case analysis of highly expressive targeted violence (TARGET)." We conducted a qualitative retrospective case study to analyze witness reports from school staff and peers. Our results point to subjective explanations used by teachers and peers toward conspicuous behavior (e.g., situational framing and typical adolescent behavior), as well as reassuring factors that indicated harmlessness (e.g., no access to a weapon). Additionally, we found organizational barriers similar to those described in US-American case studies (e.g., organizational deviance).
Identifiants
pubmed: 32848993
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01592
pmc: PMC7396547
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1592Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Fiedler, Sommer, Leuschner, Ahlig, Göbel and Scheithauer.
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