Peter Fabbri Langman (born February 20, 1960) is an

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counseling psychologist and author. He is a known expert on school shooters.

Professional career

Langman received his

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from

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, his

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in counseling psychology from

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, and his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from

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. In 2009, he published his research on ten school shooters based on the analysis of the

Columbine High School massacre A school shooting and attempted bombing occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. The perpetrators, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 13 students and one teach ...

, the

Virginia Tech shooting The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree killer, spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Tech, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksbu ...

, the

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, the

Thurston High School shooting On May 21, 1998, 15-year-old freshman student Kipland Kinkel opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in the cafeteria of Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, United States, killing 2 of his classmates and wounding 25 others. He had killed ...

, the

1998 Parker Middle School dance shooting The James Parker Middle School dance shooting was an incident that occurred on April 24, 1998, at a banquet facility in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, United States. Andrew Jerome Wurst, 14, fatally shot 48-year-old John Gillette and wounded another te ...

, the

1998 Westside Middle School shooting The Westside Middle School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 24, 1998, at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas, near the city of Jonesboro. Thirteen-year-old Mitchell Johnson and eleven-year-ol ...

, the

1997 Heath High School shooting The Heath High School shooting occurred at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, on December 1, 1997, when 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on a group of students, killing three and injuring six. Shooting On December 1, 1997, Ca ...

, and the

1997 Bethel Regional High School shooting The Bethel Regional High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on February 19, 1997, at Bethel Regional High School in Bethel, Alaska. Sixteen-year-old student Evan Ramsey killed two people and wounded two people. Prior events Rep ...

. Langman's book ''Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters'' has been translated into German, Finnish, and Dutch. When the book had been found in Munich shooter's home as well as in the Arapahoe High School shooter's home, a discourse began regarding whether the shooters had used the book as inspiration or for looking for a role model, someone to emulate. In 2015, he continued his research by extending the number of analysed school shooters from ten to 48 and published the book ''School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators''. On the website ''

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'', Langman writes a

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Books

* Peter Langman: ''Warning Signs: Identifying School Shooters Before They Strike''. Langman Psychological Associates, LLC, Allentown, PA 2021. * Peter Langman: ''Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters''. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2009. * Peter Langman: ''School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators''.

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Lanham 2015 * Peter Langman: ''Jewish Issues in Multiculturalism: A Handbook for Educators and Clinicians''.

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1999 * Peter Langman: ''The Last Days of John Keats and Other Poems''. 2009 * Peter Langman: ''A qualitative investigation of multicultural education''. ( Dissertation) 2000

References

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