Understanding the Antecedents of School Shootings: The Case of the Robb Elementary School

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Author(s): Jun Sung Hong (Wayne State University, USA & Ewha Womans University, South Korea), Alberto Valido (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)and Luz E. Robinson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 26
Source title: Impact of Gun Violence in School Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jeffrey Herron (Campbellsville University, USA)and Sharon R. Sartin (Campbellsville University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1706-8.ch001

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Educational Administration and Leadership / Human Behavior & Psychology / Social Sciences & Humanities

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On May 24, 2022, nineteen students and two teachers in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas lost their lives and several students and staff were injured due to a mass school shooting perpetrated by an eighteen-year-old assailant. Applying the social-ecological framework, this chapter explores the antecedents of the Robb Elementary School shootings within the individual, relational/interpersonal, community, and societal contexts. The antecedents of the shootings at Robb Elementary School identified in this chapter are male sex and violent and narcissistic behaviors at the individual level, parent-child conflict, and lower social status in peer groups within the relational context, poor school performance within the community context, and living in poverty and permissive gun laws within the societal context. Implications for practice, policy, and future research are also discussed.

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