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Dave Cullen

    Dave Cullen is een vooraanstaand Amerikaans journalist die twee decennia lang de plaag van massamoorden in Amerika heeft onderzocht. Zijn werk onderscheidt zich door diepgaand inzicht in de psychologie van de daders en bredere maatschappelijke contexten. Cullen richt zich op het ontdekken van de waarheid en het vinden van hoop, zelfs in de donkerste gebeurtenissen, zoals blijkt uit zijn verslag over de oorsprong van een beweging voor hoop en verandering.

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    • Columbine

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      EXPANDED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE "The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year. What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors.

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