Exploring Layers

Mercer L. Sullivan
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Mercer L. Sullivan: Rutgers University

Sociological Methods & Research, 2002, vol. 31, issue 2, 255-285

Abstract: Recent incidents of mass school shootings are highly unusual in at least three ways besides the severity of the violence involved. The offenders have little prior history of violence, the schools have previously been orderly and safe, and the surrounding communities are low-crime areas. Understanding these incidents thus requires a multilevel framework of inquiry that addresses the nested levels of individual, school, and community. The case of the incident that occurred in Rockdale County, Georgia, in 1999 is compared to a situation of more frequent and routine violence in New York City to illustrate the methodological and substantive problems of such an inquiry. The assumptions and procedures of extended case method are described, contrasted to those of hierarchical regression modeling, and applied to the problem at hand.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1177/0049124102031002005

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