Listen Here "As society cautiously re-opens and returns to in-person activity and work, violence and physical threats to businesses are occurring at an unsettling, record-high pace. This is a result of multiple factors, from pent up economic and political frustrations to revised health and safety protocols in the office. However, there’s someone … [Read more...]
Preventing the Next Attack: Implications of Returning to In-Person Activity
Psychosis and mass shootings: A systematic examination using publicly available data.
Mass shootings are often blamed on serious mental illness. This study assesses the role of psychosis in contributing to mass shootings along a continuum. The role of psychosis is compared with other motivations for mass shootings including employment issues, interpersonal conflict, relationship issues, hate, and fame-seeking. Perpetrators … [Read more...]
A Horrible History: Colorado’s Plague of Mass Shootings
"The Boulder King Soopers mass shooting on March 22, 2021, took as many lives as the prior four Colorado mass shootings combined. Colorado has witnessed 12 mass shootings in the last 27 years, claiming 59 lives and injuring another 125 people — many with life-changing afflictions. As these events grow in frequency and severity, experts call for a … [Read more...]
Why Nearly All Mass Shooters Are Men
This week, a shooting attack at a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., left 10 people dead. Just days earlier, eight people were fatally shot in a rampage targeting spas in the Atlanta area. As with almost every mass shooter in recorded U.S. history, both of the suspects in the recent attacks are men. A staggering 98% of these crimes have been … [Read more...]
It’s Not Hopeless – Vice News Tonight
Thursday, March 25, 2021: Our co-founders Jillian Peterson and James Densley spoke to Krishna Andavolu at Vice News about The Violence Project's research into mass shootings. Starting in the 1960s through the COVID-19 pandemic, they discussed risk factors and the common social script that lead to mass shootings. Watch the interview … [Read more...]