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#334: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic - Part 1

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Laura and Jim interview Professors Jillian Petersen and James Densley, co-founders and co-presidents of The Violence Project, a nonprofit, non-partisan research center best known for its mass shooter database, funded by the National Institute of Justice.

Together they have written a book called 'The Violence Project: how to stop a mass shooting epidemic.' They have interviewed perpetrators and victims and their families with the aim of preventing future mass shootings. Building on their coverage and analysis of Columbine and other mass shootings, Laura and Jim discuss their findings including making the links across violent offending behaviour, the red flags, the pathway to murder and early identification, intervention and prevention opportunities. You will not want to miss this.

#HomicidePrevention #MassShootings #Columbine #Intervention #Prevention #Violence #Analysis #Profiling

You can buy Jill and James’ important new book by clicking on this link!

The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic by 

Jillian Peterson, Ph.D & James Densley, Ph.D 

https://amzn.to/3meCjnC

Jillian Peterson, PhD, is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Hamline University. She has led large-scale research studies on mental illness and crime, school shootings, and mass violence. James Densley, PhD, is a professor of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University, which is part of the Minnesota State system. He is known for his international work on gangs, criminal networks, violent extremism, and policing. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Jillian and James run The Violence Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center known worldwide for its work on mass shooting prevention. The Violence Project has featured in CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other leading media outlets. 

“One of the most comprehensive studies of the subject”―Wall Street Journal

“Reading The Violence Project is like having the lights turned on in a dark stadium. Jillian Peterson and James Densley illuminate for us the darkest corners of our violent predilections. They’ve told us what to do; the rest is up to us. Groundbreaking!”―Rachel Louise Snyder, bestselling author of No Visible Bruises

You can hear the clip used in this episode in its entirety here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5el7RQosS9g

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

From Newtown, as a country, we have been through this too many times.

0:11.0

To Orlando, it's actively doing nothing, is a decision as well.

0:18.0

To Sutherland Springs, I personally have gotten a little tired of the statements following these tragedies that we need to do something.

0:26.0

To Parkland, to Las Vegas, to El Paso, to Atlanta, to Boulder.

0:53.0

There's a shooter, active shooter, get away! Get back!

0:57.0

There have been 2,805 mass shootings since the gun violence archive began compiling data in 2014, and they have become more frequent.

1:28.0

Hi there, everyone, and welcome to Real Crime Profile. I'm Laura Richards, former New Scotland Yard Criminal Behavioral Analyst, host of Crime Analyst and Founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service.

1:43.0

And with me today is...

1:45.0

Hi, I'm Jim Clemente, you're tired of the out-profile former New York City prosecutor and executive producer of Fox's New America's Most Wanted.

1:52.0

And today we have two incredibly special guests, don't we Laura?

1:56.0

We do, we're very excited. So go ahead, please introduce yourself.

2:01.0

My name is Dr. Jillian Peterson, I'm an Associate Professor of Criminology at Hamlin University, and I am co-founder and co-president of the Violence Project.

2:11.0

And I'm Dr. James Densley, and I am a Professor of Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, and also a co-founder and co-president of the Violence Project.

2:22.0

Excellent, we're so happy to have you here, and unfortunately, Lucie couldn't make it, she has a puppy emergency.

2:29.0

So we hope that all is well with her puppy Eleanor, but she really did want to speak with you both.

2:34.0

And our listeners will know that we've had James on before, there's a second British accent on the podcast, which is wonderful, but a lot of your work has been in the UK, but also in the US as well.

2:46.0

And the Violence Project is an incredible project that everyone should know about. So do you want to give a broad straight, what is the Violence Project and this incredible work that you've been doing?

2:57.0

Sure, I can do that. The Violence Project, it started out as kind of just James and I in a group of students trying to figure out the life histories of mass shooters and realizing that we knew very little about where this problem was coming from and who does this sort of crime.

3:14.0

And because we didn't understand it, we weren't really able to build the prevention intervention strategies that we needed.

3:21.0

So we started basically with a spreadsheet of every mass shooter who killed four or more people in a public space, not related to another felony and not related to domestic violence, going back to 1966 until today.

3:36.0

And we using public records, we coded them on, it's now nearly 200 pieces of life history information. So everything from childhood trauma to being in crisis, if they were working anything that we could come up with, what was happening in their lives right before the crime.

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