Traumatic Violence: Listening to Boys From Littleton, Colorado (IN: Real Boys’ Voices by W S Pollack & T Shuster)

This chapter presents personal accounts of the shootings that occurred at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Possible reasons are offered for the mass homicide & the subsequent suicides of the adolescent perpetrators. The narrators speculate on the role of social ostracization, depression, loneliness, & suicidal thoughts that they believe were influential in the perpetratorsÕ actions. They also talk about their personal experiences with the perpetrators. (SC)