Mass Shootings: An Interview with Criminologists Drs. Jillian Peterson and James Densley, the Argument for Data-Driven Nuance, and Steps for Prevention

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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A 2019 poll reported that one-third of adults say they feel they “cannot go anywhere without worrying about being a victim of mass shooting” and “more than half of American teenagers worry about a shooting at their school.” A mass shooting is generally defined as the murder of at least four people at one time. Why do mass shootings take place? Are there any commonalities between the perpetrators? Could these shootings have been stopped before they started?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.
0:12.2	I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling
0:16.6	like an expert in what you do.
0:18.6	One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical
0:22.0	education right at the last minute.
0:24.2	So why not join the CME membership and do CME while listening to this podcast?
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0:32.7	emailed to you in seconds.
0:34.8	I'm very excited to announce an episode on a very heavy topic.
0:39.6	Jillian Peterson, PhD, James, Densley, PhD, come on to the podcast.
0:44.9	They are PhDs in criminology and have spent years creating the violenceproject.org, which
0:54.2	is the largest database of mass shooters.
0:57.2	It dates back around 40 years, pre-social media.
1:01.9	And throughout this episode, we talk about their new book.
1:06.9	It's called The Violence Project, How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic.
1:13.0	And Dr. Peterson and Dr. Densley share their expertise of mass shooting.
1:18.7	They were able to look at and create this very detailed database, along with speaking
1:24.6	with a lot of survivors, a lot of heroes, a lot of families, and they personally interviewed
1:33.6	five of the survivors who did not commit suicide after they committed this atrocity.
1:41.6	I think in this episode, you'll be surprised.
1:44.8	It's like we all have opinions, we all have thoughts, we all have ideas on what caused
1:49.6	this.
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