Research, findings, and essays
Center executive director Jillian Peterson and deputy director James Densley are the authors of The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction. The book examines mass shootings in America and issues an urgent call to action to stop these tragedies using first-person accounts from perpetrators, survivors, and families.
In addition, they have been widely published in peer-reviewed publications, essays, and op-eds.
Peer-reviewed articles
- Deviant Behavior, online publication ahead of print (2024):
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (January 29, 2024):
Epidemiology of Mass Shootings in the United States - Homicide Studies (in preparation):
The nature of homicides on college campuses 2000-2023 - Nature (in preparation):
Direct exposure to mass shootings among a nationally representative sample of Americans - Social Media + Society (February 2023):
- Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2022):
- JAMA Network Open (November 4, 2021):
- JAMA Network Open (February 16, 2021):
- The Police Journal (July 30, 2019):
- Journal of Crime and Justice (May 24, 2018):
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence (July 11, 2016):
- Mitchell Â鶹ÊÓƵAPK Law Review (January 1, 2016):
- Clinical Psychological Science (April 24, 2015):
Recent essays and op-eds
Los Angeles Times (December 17, 2024):
CNN (March 28, 2023):
The Conversation (February 14, 2023)
The Conversation (February 9, 2023):
NY Times (January 26, 2023):
LA Times (January 25, 2023):
The Conversation (January 24, 2023):
