Summary of Findings, Policy Implications, and Future Research

Abstract

Through in-depth interviews with school and police officials (administrators, counselors, security and police officers, and teachers) as well as content analysis of news reporting and legal documentation covering 11 averted incidents of school rampage in the Northeastern United States, this study has explored perceptions of and reactions to threats of multiplevictim school attacks. Given the dearth of empirical scholarship on averted incidents of school rampage, this research unearths important data on the process by which threats of rampage violence are assessed and how previous school rampage plots have been averted.