Dr. Peter Langman is a psychologist whose research on school shooters has received international recognition. His book Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) has been translated into Russian, German, Dutch, and Finnish. Dr. Langman has been interviewed by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Today, 20/20, Nightline, Fox, CNN, the BBC, and over five hundred other news outlets in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. His work has been cited in congressional testimony on Capitol Hill. After the Sandy Hook attack, the CEO of the American Psychological Association presented Dr. Langman’s recommendations on school safety to President Obama. Dr. Langman has spoken at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC; the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA; and the National Counterterrorism Center. He has been hired by the Department of Homeland Security to train professionals in school safety, and he participated in the 2018 Homeland Security National School Security Roundtable. Dr. Langman has been a researcher with the National Police Foundation and was the lead author of their report A Comparison of Averted and Completed School Attacks from the Police Foundation Averted School Violence Database. His articles have appeared in American Behavioral Scientist, Aggression and Violent Behavior, Journal of Campus Behavioral Intervention, Journal of Health Service Psychology, Forensic Digest, Campus Safety Magazine, Police Chief Magazine, and Criminology and Public Policy. He is also the author of School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He has trained thousands of professionals in education, mental health, and law enforcement on the psychological dynamics of perpetrators of mass violence and the prevention of rampage attacks. He maintains the website School Shooters .info, which houses the largest online collection of materials relating to school shooters, comprising over five hundred documents totaling 65,000 pages. Dr. Langman is a researcher with the National Threat Assessment Center of the United States Secret Service, and has contributed to several of their reports, including Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence; Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2019; and Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools. He is the Director of Research and School Safety Training for Drift Net Securities. Dr. Langman received a B.A. in psychology from Clark University, an M.A. in counseling psychology from Lesley University, and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Lehigh University. He maintains an independent psychology practice. He is also a poet and playwright. His latest book is Warning Signs: Identifying School Shooters Before They Strike (2021).
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