318 - Gun Violence Prevention: What a Study of Mass Shootings Tells Us About How to Prevent Them
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Mass shootings are very rare, but they receive a lot of media attention and have enormous social costs. Guest host Dr. Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy, talks with Dr. Jillian Peterson from Hamline University and Dr. James Densley from Metropolitan State University about The Violence Project, research that collects data about the life history of mass shooters and their psychological profiles. They discuss what they've learned, how this research can inform interventions, and why evidence suggests that many of the ways we're currently trying to prevent violence are all wrong.
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| 2:03.1 | gun violence, we're handing the mic over to guest host Dr. Daniel Webster, director of the Johns |
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