Benjamin Reiss, "Madness after Virginia Tech: From Psychiatric Risk to Institutional Vulnerability" Social Text
Benjamin Reiss, "Campus Security and the Specter of Mental-Health Profiling" The Chronicle of Higher Education
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What lessons have been learned from the Jared Loughner shootings and the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre? Is it that college instructors and staff need to intervene to prevent violent episodes from occurring in the first place? Benjamin Reiss objects to what he sees as the intrusion of psychiatric risk assessment and intervention into the classroom.