CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Mass Murder/Suicide Epidemic: A Growing Menace

Chapter 2: Genes and Mental Illness

Chapter 3: Sandy Hook: Identifying Dangerous Aspects of Strange Behavior

Chapter 4: James Holmes: The Dark Knight Rises

Chapter 5: The Tucson Shootings: Who Was Jared Loughner?

Chapter 6: Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Chapter 7: Eddie Routh: The Double Murder at a Gun Range

Chapter 8: Psychiatric, Sociopsychological, and Genetic Backgrounds of Violence and Aggression

Chapter 9: Toward a New Biology: Violent Stimuli against the Background of Human Psychological Development

Chapter 10: Best-Practice Approaches

Chapter 11: Practical Guidelines for Identifying Signs of Potential Violence

Index