Fixing Columbine

"This book explores the meaning of the Columbine tragedy, as well as the nature and causes of the larger epidemic of youth dysfunction that it has come to symbolize. This epidemic is characterized by extraordinary numbers - it affects between 15 and 25 million American children - and by its manifestations, including a childhood suicide rate that by some estimates has risen 700 percent since 1960, as well as by equally pervasive and alarming increases in rates of violent behavior, depression, and anxiety.". "Adopting a comparative perspective, Doriane Lambelet Coleman demonstrates that this…