📖 Title: Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters
✍️ Author: Peter Langman, Ph.D.
🏛️ Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
📅 Publication date: March 15, 2009
🌐 Language: English
🔎 ISBN-13: 9780230608078
Rating: 🔍🔍🔍🔍 — “Elementary, my dear Watson!”
School shootings remain one of the most haunting and tragic realities of modern times. In Why Kids Kill, Peter Langman, Ph.D., takes us deep into the psychology of these perpetrators, not to excuse their actions, but to help us understand them.
The book balances academic insight with readability, making it accessible whether you are new to the subject or already familiar with the field. Langman’s approach is informative without being sensationalized, and while there are a few repetitions throughout, they do not diminish the overall experience.
I listened to this as an audiobook, and the narrator deserves a mention—calm, clear, and highly engaging— which made the heavy subject matter easier to process.
If you want to go beyond the headlines and explore the psychology behind this dark phenomenon, Why Kids Kill is a valuable and thought-provoking read.