This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that have been prevented. ampnbspIn the flood of recent accounts and analyses of deadly school rampage killings that plague society and inspire widespread public fear very little attention has been given to the incidents that almost were. ampnbspBuilding on Madfis previous book The Risk of School Rampage Assessing and Preventing Threats of School Violence 2014 this vital work addresses key gaps in school violence scholarship through the examination of averted school rampage incidents in the United States and advances existing knowledge through groundbreaking insights from the latest research on mass murder violence prevention bystander intervention disciplinary policy and threat assessment in school contexts. This empirical study utilizes indepth interviews conducted with school and police officials administrators counselors security guards police officers and teachers directly involved in averting potential school rampages to explore the processes by which threats are assessed and school rampage plots are thwarted. Madfis finds that many common contemporary school violence prevention policies and practices are ineffective at preventing rampage attacks and may actually increase the likelihood of their occurrence. ampnbspRather than uncritically adopting such problematic approaches Madfis argues that schools must model prevention practices upon what has proven successful in averting potentially deadly incidents.ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbsp ampnbspampnbsp