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This chapter provides background information about the eleven cases of averted school rampage investigated in this study and describes the key motivating research questions. The phenomenon of school rampage is introduced and the literature on the causes and reactions to prior incidents of school violence (and the field of violence risk assessment in particular) is examined. This chapter also situates the American reaction to school rampage in the broader social context of contemporary school disciplinary and security practices and provides theoretical background for explaining recent developments though insights from the sociology of risk, actuarial justice, and neoliberal penality.

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