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School Shootings: A Nexus Of Adolescent Masculinity, Bullying, And Homophobia, Jack Marsden
School Shootings: A Nexus Of Adolescent Masculinity, Bullying, And Homophobia, Jack Marsden
Honors Theses
Though overall gun violence has plummeted since 1993, multi-victim school shootings have increased in frequency over the last fifty years and the number of adolescent perpetrators has more than doubled since 1996. I borrow from Kimmel and Mahler’s (2001) format to examine seven shootings that have occurred in the fifteen years since their paper’s original publication. I replicate their qualitative methodology and conduct my own analysis of these attacks. My findings suggest that these boys that open fire are mired in a history of routine, merciless bullying and that the content of the bullying is homophobic in nature. I also …