Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing

by Dave Grossman and Kristine Paulsen

Book Overview

The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide -- and what we must do about it.

Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school.

Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves.

Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316265934
• ISBN13: 9780316265935
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"