The Violence Project has studied every U.S. mass shooting since 1966. Its database, which is not publicly available yet, includes 160 mass shooters who have killed four or more people in a public place. Nearly all were male and the average age was 34-years-old. The study found most shooters shared common traits, like experiencing childhood trauma. … [Read more...]
Watch: Common traits like childhood trauma, behavioral changes link mass shooters
Grievances, access to guns, notoriety associated with shootings
The Violence Project's finding that mass shooters usually have four common characteristics was quoted in Paul Scott's article following the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Drs. Peterson and Densley's research was featured alongside remarks from Grant Duwe, a researcher at the Minnesota Bureau of Corrections and national authority on … [Read more...]
Four Things Most Mass Shooters Have in Common
The Trump Administration is funding studies of mass shooters in the United States. Right now, researchers are combing through a trove of social media and historical data to find similarities among these individuals. One of the researchers, James Densley from The Violence Project, joins Cheddar Business to explain his findings. Watch … [Read more...]
What pushes people to carry out mass shootings, and what can be done to stop them?
The Violence Project's James Densley joined Don Lemon on CNN Tonight to discuss the recent mass shootings. He also discussed the commonalities among shooters, and what we can do to prevent more. View the archival footage here Source: CNN Tonight … [Read more...]
Many campus shootings have similarities. Studying them might prevent more tragedy, researchers say.
Over the past half-century, more than 70 percent of campus shootings happened near the end of the school year. Tuesday’s shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in which two students lost their lives, was no exception as it took place on the last day of classes. While the UNC Charlotte incident doesn’t fit the FBI’s … [Read more...]