The Minds of Mass Killers with Author Shavaun Scott

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week I have a special episode diving into the topic of the psychology of mass killers. What prompts someone to commit mass murder against random strangers? How did Columbine become a cultural touchstone that inspired others to plan and execute their own mass shooting sprees? What can we do to slow down the number and frequency of these types of crimes, if anything? I'll get answers to some of these questions from psychotherapist and author, P. Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence. Here's a link to Shavan's book which you can purchase at Amazon.com. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B09MB86W17&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_2M1AWDE85GG90D9JY8QH&tag=onc01a-20

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:08.0	It is not intended for children.
0:10.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:13.0	Thank you for joining me for today's special episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:25.0	As you know, if you're caught up with episodes of Once Upon a Crime,
0:28.0	last month's series was titled Live Streamed Crimes.
0:31.6	In this series, I detailed cases of people who perpetrated crimes
0:35.3	recorded them and then aired them to the public in real time as they were happening.
0:39.6	Two of these crimes happened to be mass shootings. The Arizona mall
0:42.9	shooting was the one I covered in one episode and the other episode was the
0:46.8	Christ Church New Zealand mosque shootings. While mass shootings in
0:50.5	other countries like New Zealand are much less common.
0:53.0	Unfortunately they're quite prevalent here in the US and because it has been
0:57.2	such an issue for us here in the States it's something I've been quite interested
1:00.5	to learn more about why they occur, like who the perpetrators are, what are their
1:05.2	motivations for doing this kind of crime, you know, just in the numbers that we see.
1:10.9	And most importantly, how can we reduce the number of these incidents to keep the public
1:14.6	safety or what have we learned about these types of crimes that may inform us
1:19.4	whether that's policy or safety protocols put in place things like that for the future.
1:25.8	So with all of those questions in my mind I was very excited to learn about a new book that
1:29.8	really dives into the subject at length and it has a lot of great
1:33.0	information and a lot of great insights. It's titled The Minds of Mass
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