Book Review: Grappling with Workplace Violence: A Review Essay

Abstract

The murder of thirty-two people on the Virginia Tech campus in April 2007—the most destructive rampage shooting in U.S. history—has intensified the search for security in our schools, offices, and factories. The killer had spent weeks purchasing weapons, amassing ammunition, and videotaping a postmortem self-justification. Given the uncertain response of safety officials, it is evident that they, too, could have benefited from intensive preparation. Consulting these two volumes, which were published the year before the massacre, would have been a good start.