This afterword considers the cultural effect of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. I bring together the aspects of a traditional academic review with my personal reflections as a scholar who spent the past two decades researching its cultural and policy ramifications. Columbine is a noted milestone in the American cultural lexicon, and one that has become an important reference point for discussions of school violence and other social problems concerning youth. Columbine often serves as an inaccurate exemplar of the broader problem of youth violence, and this so-called “Columbine Effect” means that extreme cases exert a disproportionately strong influence on public discourse about the problem. Over the past 20 years, the net effect has been the acceleration of punitive anti-violence school policies that include policing, surveillance, and zero-tolerance policies. I consider my experience as a researcher in this area and conclude with modest suggestions for guiding policy development to mitigate the problem of violence in schools.

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后记：哥伦拜恩对文化、政策和我的影响

这个后记考虑了 1999 年哥伦拜恩高中枪击事件的文化影响。我将传统学术评论的各个方面与我作为一名学者的个人反思结合起来，该学者在过去的二十年里一直在研究其文化和政策的影响。哥伦拜恩是美国文化词汇中的一个著名里程碑，并已成为讨论校园暴力和其他有关青年的社会问题的重要参考点。Columbine 经常作为更广泛的青年暴力问题的一个不准确的例子，这种所谓的“Columbine 效应”意味着极端案例对有关该问题的公众话语产生了不成比例的强烈影响。在过去的 20 年里，净效应是惩罚性的反暴力学校政策的加速，包括警务、监视、和零容忍政策。我考虑了我作为该领域研究人员的经验，并提出了一些指导政策制定以减轻学校暴力问题的适度建议。