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About The Violence Project

The Violence Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research center dedicated to public criminology and data-driven violence prevention.

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Psychologist Dr. Jillian Peterson and sociologist Dr. James Densley are acclaimed and award-winning experts on crime and violence. As public intellectuals, they have made hundreds of media appearances worldwide.

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Mass shootings are more frequent and deadlier than ever

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The Mass Shooter Database

185 mass shootings
189 mass shooters
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The largest, most comprehensive database on the life histories of mass shooters.

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Work in Progress

With funding from the Joyce Foundation, we are studying the changing nature of homicide in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. This involves the analysis of local crime data and interviews with homicide offenders and key stakeholders.

With funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's STOP School Violence Program, we are also working on a "Customized School Safety Protocol" in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Testimonials

With Dr. Peterson and Dr. Densley’s innovative crisis response training program, we experienced a 23% decrease in crisis related service calls in our first year. Officers reported that the training was one of the best they have had, providing realistic tools they can use when helping those in crisis.

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Scott Boerboom
Chief of Police, City of Minnetonka

The nightmare scenario for a principal related to safety is a school shooter. Dr. Peterson and Dr. Densely’s research on mass shootings, and most importantly their framework for how we can think about prevention, provides school and system leaders with research that can be trusted and used in practical ways.

Katie Pekel
Katie Pekel
Ed.D, University of Minnesota

Teachers are on the "front lines" when it comes to recognizing students who are facing crisis. Teachers deserve a "real world tool box" to support a student who reaches out to them for help. Mass Shooting Prevention Training provides this "tool box." As a former educator and now, a survivor of a school shooting, I know how important it is for teachers to be able to "do something" when a student asks for help. Mass Shooting Prevention Training provides this help.

Missy Dodds
Missy Dodds
School safety advocate and Red Lake School Shooting survivor

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The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings

“Mass killings, particularly those in which a gunman opens fire in a crowded public space, tend to draw much more attention than daily violence. But these shootings represent… Read More »

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The Violence Project: How to stop a mass shooting epidemic

Within this news report, Dr. Jillian Peterson discusses her work and book “The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic” after the Highland Park shooting. Watch… Read More »

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This article is more than 1 month old US mass shootings are getting deadlier and more common, analysis shows

“Our analysis is based on data from the Violence Project, a nonprofit research group that uses a narrow definition of mass shootings adopted from the congressional research service,… Read More »

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