School Shootings in the United States: a Typology of Lethal and Nonlethal Injury (IN: The Varieties of Homicide and its Research. Proceedings of the 1999 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group, edited by P H Blackman et al)

This paper examined American school shootings that occurred during 8 academic years, 1990-91 through 1997-98. A typology of school shootings is proposed which aims to put this phenomena in a scientific framework where it can be objectively investigated. The typology suggests the school shootings were operationally different from other types of shootings that involved multiple shots, & represent a different, more pernicious type of threat than other types of school shootings.