After the Bloodbath

Is Healing Possible in the Wake of Rampage Shootings?

James D. Diamond

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781611863314
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628953732
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

As violence in the United States seems to become increasingly more commonplace, the question of how communities reset after unprecedented violence also grows in significance. After the Bloodbath examines this quandary, producing insights linking rampage shootings and communal responses in the United States. Diamond, who was a leading attorney in the community where the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy occurred, focuses on three well-known shootings and a fourth shooting that occurred on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. The book looks to the roots of Indigenous approaches to crime, identifying an institutional weakness in the Anglo judicial model, and explores adapting Indigenous practices that contribute to healing following heinous criminal behavior. Emerging from the history of Indigenous dispute resolution is a spotlight turned on to restorative justice, a subject no author has discussed to date in the context of mass shootings. Diamond ultimately leads the reader to a positive road forward focusing on insightful steps people can take after a rampage shooting to help their wounded communities heal.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Counting Victims: An Introduction to Indigenous vs. Non-Indigenous Perspectives
• Chapter 2. Rampage Murders: School Shootings in Non-Indigenous Communities
• Chapter 3. When Mass Shootings Occur on American Indian Reservations: Studies in Contrast
• Chapter 4. The Typical Aftermath of Rampage Murder: The Outpouring of Anger at Parents and Family Members
• Chapter 5. Restorative Justice in Indigenous Cultures: Restoring Balance and Harmony
• Chapter 6. Forgiveness: Restoring Social Bonds
• Chapter 7. Restorative Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence Today: How Much Can Be Borrowed?
• Chapter 8. A Time to Heal: Recommendations for a Way Forward
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Fatal Victims in Select Mass Shootings
• Appendix 2. Mass Shootings in the United States, 1982–2018
• Appendix 3. American Indian Tribes with Some Level of Established Wellness Courts
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index