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The April 30 shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte isn't an outlier. Research shows it fits a familiar pattern of campus shootings in terms of time and place.
As the news of the shootings in New Zealand quickly unfolded, a researcher took note of the way the event was covered in news media and how the coverage was being discussed on social media.
School shooters typically show warning signs long before they become killers, but educators are sometimes ill-equipped to act on what they see, two researchers who are analyzing mass shooters say.
Scholars helped put a persistent problem into a larger context with their research.
Mass shootings bring terror in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society at large is also affected, a trauma psychiatrist writes.
A national survey of over 1,300 congregations found that religious leaders struggle to balance security concerns with carrying out a mission to be open to the communities they serve.
Mass murders like the killings at a Pittsburgh synagogue are seen as the work of disturbed individuals. But America has allowed violence to become unexceptional, ignoring its root cause.
One year after the Oct. 1 shooting massacre in Las Vegas, a team of scholars from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas offers insights into how to best help those affected by the violence.
Toronto is still grappling with the fallout from two mass casualty events -- April's van attack and a mass shooting in July. A month after the shooting, how is Toronto moving forward?
Calls to outlaw handguns in Canada are hardly knee-jerk proposals in response to violent incidents. Instead, they're in line with the historic Canadian trend to limit the presence of modern pistols.
White shooters are nearly 95 percent more likely to have their crimes attributed to mental illness than black shooters.
Social media abhors informational vacuums and speed eclipses accuracy. That allows pseudo-experts, agitators and even liars to circulate rumours and poisonous information when big news breaks.
After acts of violence, we want to make sense of what is right and wrong and where we stand in the world. But we must ensure our belief systems are periodically and systematically checked.
The hotel company filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas last October, arguing it has immune from liability under federal law.
There is a long line of well-armed American preachers -- both real and fictional -- in US history and culture, confirming perhaps the view that true justice cannot be enforced by institutions alone.
A criminologist reviews recent research to dispel common misconceptions about mass shootings.
The notion of a 'crisis of masculinity” clouds the understanding of complex social phenomena and falsely asserts a vision of humanity as being radically divided between men and women.
Student activists are presenting important, emotionally powerful counter-narratives to those of the gun lobby. Their success will depend on whether they can sustain these efforts.
The lightning-quick corporate response to demands for a boycott against the NRA shows that companies can't escape politics in an age saturated with social media.
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of the Master's in Applied Intelligence, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor of Communications, Pennsylvania State University
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C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University
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Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Salford
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PhD Candidate in Modern Languages and Cultural Studies/ Associate Instructor, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
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Director, Homicide Research Unit/Deputy Director, Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer and researcher, Karlstads University
