by admin | Aug 1, 2020
This study compares the demographic, background, motivation, and pre‐event and event‐level behaviors across four types of mass public shooters: disgruntled employee , school , ideologically motivated, and rampage offenders. Using a database containing detailed...
by admin | Aug 1, 2020
We demonstrate that prior event exposures in panel data are a serious concern for identifying ‘causal’ effects. We re-analyzed the 2010–14 (3-wave) and 2010–12 (2-wave) CCES panel datasets and find that our original conclusions hold (see Newman and Hartman, 2017):...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine whether characteristics related to the school, shooter, and guns used are associated with school shooting severity (casualty rates, fatality rates, and likelihood of fatality). Methods: We analyzed associations between...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Background There are no studies correlating wounding pattern or probability of death based on firearm type used in civilian public mass shooting (CPMS) events. Previous studies on non-CPMS events found that handguns are more lethal than rifles. We hypothesized that...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
This study examined the 15 deadliest public mass shootings in the United States from March 1998 to February 2018 to assess (a) leakage of violent thoughts/intent, (b) leakage of specific interest in mass killing, (c) concerning behaviors reported to law enforcement,...
