title: Student homicidal violence in schools: an international problem.
abstract: School homicides have been become a worldwide phenomenon. In the decade following the Columbine shooting there have been at least forty similar events in other countries. This article addresses the international scope of this problem and some of the complex conceptual issues that make student homicidal violence difficult to define and study. Meaningful research on risk and protective factors that can inform evidence-based preventive models is summarized.
authors.affiliation: Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bondü
authors.forename: Dewey G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Cornell
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Scheithauer
mesh_terms: D054042:Bombs; D003120:Colorado; D005389:Firearms; D006708:Homicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008402:Mass Media / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012306:Risk; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot