Lockdown and active shooter simulations look and feel very different, though people often lump the two practices together.
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Evolving views about parental gun ownership and liability will likely have ramifications in custody battles.
Blaming violence on mental illness is misleading and distracts from other evidence-based drivers. In the end, this undermines effective prevention.
When tragedies occur, governments and schools face intense pressure to act, and urgency can produce policies that signal control without a plan to evaluate their impact.
The Canadian Emergency Response Psychosocial Support Network offers a directory of mental health services across Canada, a mental health self-assessment tool, and individual and community mental-health tool kits.
The $4 billion school security industry can’t back up claims for its tech. The silver lining: That’s partly because there aren’t enough shootings to study.
Prevention methods like lockdown drills do not account for many scenarios, including the likely case that a school shooter is a former or current student.
People spend less on groceries, restaurants and public activities for months after a fatal school shooting − costing communities millions.
Generations already suffering a shattered sense of safety from US gun violence do not see the military as a viable option, a terrorism scholar argues.
The presence of police in schools has grown in the past 30 years. But research shows that these officers may not be the most effective method for deterring violence.
School mass shooters often display warning signs well before they open fire. How can schools and police take preventive action to save lives?
The persistent threat of school shootings demands a more thoughtful response to their prevention.
Had James Crumbley taken 10 seconds to secure a cable lock, the lives of four teenagers may have been spared.
Public tragedies are heartrending events that gain widespread public attention. But where once prominent tragedies often brought Americans together, such tragedies no longer unify the country.
The ramifications of a US court case where parents of a school shooter have been prosecuted are explained by a legal expert.
Research on developing brains has helped bring about a sea change in attitudes toward juvenile life without parole. But many people who committed crimes as minors are still serving such sentences.
Analysis of the 10 years in which the US banned sales of assault weapons shows that it correlates with a drop in mass shooting deaths – a trend that reversed as soon as the ban expired.
Much of the public discussion on preventing school shootings is about whether and how to limit people’s access to firearms. But other strategies can reduce the risk for violence.
A gunman at Michigan State University shot dead three people before taking his own life. Two criminologists explain how the incident fits a pattern of campus attacks.
Students may need a listening ear and reassurance in the aftermath of having witnessed a school shooting.
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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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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Florida
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Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, University of Central Florida
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
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Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, State University of New York Oswego
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