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Month: September 2019

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Mass Shooter Database

September 30, 2019

How do we reduce mass shootings? In today's Academic Minute, Hamline University's Jillian Peterson looks into the data. Peterson is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Hamline. A transcript of this podcast can be found here. Listen to the Episode Source: Inside Higher Ed - Academic Minute … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Research, Media, Watch or Listen Tagged With: violence prevention, suicidality, commonalities, mental health

Companies can use VR to train employees for mass shootings. But should they?

September 25, 2019

"The shooter was a man: bald, wearing pants and a button-down shirt, standing in front of me in an office break room, firing a gun. Shots rang in my ears. A heartbeat thump-thumped around me. A high-pitched noise made it hard for me to think. Seconds later, I heard rapid breathing sounds. I had to find a way out. I made my way to a tall glass … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Workplace shootings, mass shooters, active shooter, Active shooter drills

Don’t let the mass shooters win

September 6, 2019

"Mass shootings are a serious problem. But we shouldn’t let fear of them take over our lives." Dylan Matthews from Vox discusses the panic stemming from terrorism and mass shootings, as well as the cases for and against raising the profile of mass shootings. He reached out to The Violence Project's Jillian Peterson to talk about the harm caused … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: mass shooting, social script, violence prevention, trauma, active shooter, Active shooter drills, fear

Report Details Stunning Amount Of Free Publicity Media Gives Mass Shooters

September 2, 2019

An op-ed published in The Los Angeles Times on Sunday documented the staggering amount of free media publicity that news organizations like CNN give mass shooters in the wake of tragedies and how that free publicity is driving the frequency and lethality of the tragedies. The article was authored by James Densley, a sociologist and professor of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: performance, media

We analyzed 53 years of mass shooting data. Attacks aren’t just increasing, they’re getting deadlier

September 1, 2019

If you look at mass shootings over time, two things are alarmingly clear: The attacks are becoming far more frequent and they are getting deadlier. Our society must rewrite the violence script to stop the contagion. Read More Source: Los Angeles Times Authors: James Densley and Jillian Peterson   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Mass violence, mass shooting, mass shooting definition, social script, social contagion, copycat, frequency

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