Since the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, education and public safety policy has emphasized situational crime prevention and law enforcement response in an effort to prevent shooting casualties. School security is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet, many of the alleged solutions to school shootings are expensive, dangerous, … [Read more...]
School Safety: The Violence Project Speaks
Our co-founder Jill Peterson appeared on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom
Watch her full interview with Bill Hemmer HERE. … [Read more...]
Minnesota Violence Project aims to understand mass shootings
Minnesota researchers have created a new database that seeks to help understand circumstances that contribute to mass shootings in the United States. Source: Associated Press Author: Associated Press Reprinted: New York Times, Washington Post, US News and World Report and others. … [Read more...]
St. Paul profs compiled database of U.S. mass shooters … and corresponded with six of them
A pair of St. Paul criminology professors, with the help of a federal grant, have compiled a database on “mass shooters” in America — which they believe to be the most comprehensive in academia to date. Source: Pioneer Press Author: Tad Vezner … [Read more...]
Minnesota-made tool tracks the how and why behind mass shootings
A new database launched by Twin Cities researchers aims to help policymakers and the public understand the conditions that contribute to mass shooting incidents in the United States. Researchers with the nonpartisan Violence Project documented characteristics associated with 171 people who committed mass shootings, which was defined as shooting and … [Read more...]