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Dr. Eric Madfis' Featured Media Coverage
Tacoma News Tribune - Tacoma is Home to a School Shooting Expert
UW Tacoma News - Collaborating to End Mass Violence
A2larm (Czech Republic) - "Create a Positive School Climate, Build Support Systems, Encourage Information Sharing," Says Eric Madfis
Paw'd Defiance UWT Podcast - Mass Shootings and the United States
The News Tribune - Armed Teachers? More Cops? None of These Things Prevent School Shootings, UWT Expert Says
HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - School Police
UW News - UW Tacoma’s Eric Madfis Explores Curbing School Violence in New Book
Washington Post - Why Is American Masculinity At The Center Of Gun Culture, But Not The Gun Debate?
Seattle Times - A Thoughtful, Not Reactive, Approach To School Safety
The News Tribune - No Plan To Arm Teachers, But Legislature Looks At Other Ways To Keep Schools Safe
UW Tacoma News - Associate Professor Eric Madfis Is A Leading Researcher in the Study of School Shootings and Mass Shootings
The Atlantic - What Do We Make of a Female Active Shooter?
The Boston Globe - How Do We Make Our Schools Safer? It’s Not As Simple As Cameras and Locks
NPR's Here & Now - Researcher Who Studies Averted School Attacks On How To Prevent Future Violence
Psychology Today - Clues to the Mind of the Florida School Shooter
Seeker - Mass Shootings in the US: Some Common Characteristics of the Men That Kill
Newsweek - Mass Killers Like the Vegas Shooter Should Not Be Named in News Coverage, Experts Say
Los Angeles Times - Plotters of School Killings Tend To Tip Off Someone In Advance
Dr. Eric Madfis' Select Media Coverage
The Ashari Shimbun (Japanese daily newspaper) - Multiple Opportunities to Prevent This, Trump Shooting Incident
WA State OSPI Graduation Equity Webinar – Getting Proactive with Threat Assessment
The New Yorker - Can Researchers Show That Threat Assessment Stops Mass Shootings?
Washington Post - Young Men, Guns and the Prefrontal Cortex
NPR's Reset - What Role Do Mental Health and Masculinity Play in Mass Shootings?
Grid - Trump Proposed Raising Age Limits for Gun Buys after Parkland
Philadelphia Inquirer - Can We Stop Mass Shootings If We Won’t Talk About The Crisis Of America’s Young Men?
Psychwire - How Can Mass School Violence Be Prevented?
Los Angeles Times - When Masculinity Turns ‘Toxic’: A Gender Profile Of Mass Shootings
Chicago Tribune - What Role Does "Toxic Masculinity" Play In Mass Shootings?
WAMU - Many Mass Shooters Share A Common Bond: Male Grievance Culture
American Thinker - Mass Shootings: The Elephant in the Room
BBC News - Tiroteos En Nueva Zelanda Y Brasil: La Crisis De Masculinidad Y El Fetiche Por Las Armas Que Esconde La Personalidad De Los Autores De Ataques Masivos [Shootings In New Zealand And Brazil: The Crisis Of Masculinity And The Fetish For Weapons That Hide The Personality Of The Perpetrators Of Mass Attacks]
BBC News - Massacre Em Escola De Suzano: Padrão De Atiradores Envolve Crise De Masculinidade E Fetiche Por Armas, Dizem Especialistas [Suzano School Massacre: Sniper Pattern Involves Crisis of Masculinity and Fetish For Weapons, Experts Say]
The Straits Times (Singapore) - Don't Give Terrorists The Fame They Crave
The Columbian - Mom of Sandy Hook Victim Is Striving For Safe Schools
Columbia Journalism Review - Reporters Shouldn’t Profile Mass Shooters, Say Experts
Quill - Do Journalists Deserve Some Blame For America’s Mass Shootings?
Philadelphia Inquirer - A Senseless Murder In Philly Is Latest Sign That Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Us
Bustle - What Gloria Steinem Wants Women To Know About America’s Obsession With Guns
The Conversation - How A Masculine Culture That Favors Sexual Conquests Gave Us Today’s ‘Incels’
The Mercury - There's No Need To Name, Show Mass Killers
The Boston Herald - Experts: Motives Hard to Uncover
NPR's Take Two - Why There Are So Few Female Mass Shooters
Atlanta Black Star - White Mass Shooters Are Not ‘Lone Wolves,’ and We Must Pay Attention
20 Minutes (France) - Pourquoi Les Auteurs De Fusillade De Masse Ne Sont Presque Jamais Des Femmes [Why Mass Shooters Are Almost Never Women]
Fortune - Why Female Mass Shooters—Like the One at YouTube—Are So Extraordinarily Rare
Seattle's KIRO Radio - What America Misses When Discussing Mass Shooters
Washington Post - How Reliably Does Animal Torture Predict A Future School Shooter?
Big Think - There's Still No Scientific Way To Know Who Will Become A Mass Shooter
Politico - Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Mass Shootings
Salon - The Alt-Right is Killing People
New York Daily News - The Media's Duty Is To Focus on Heroes, Not Killers: Don't Use The Excuse That Viewers and Readers Demand To Know About Murderers
Taiwan Animal News (Taiwan) - 校園槍手都有動物虐待史？ [Do Campus Shooters Have A History Of Animal Abuse?]
National Catholic Reporter - Don't Name Mass Shooters, Criminologists' Study Advises Media
Al Jazeera - White Men Kill, Brown Men Found Guilty
The Wichita Eagle - In Wake of Vegas Shooting, Experts on Violence To Speak In Wichita
Money Magazine - Las Vegas Shooter Had an Unusual Financial Life, Here's What We Know
ABC News (Australia) - Las Vegas Gunman Did Not Fit The Typical Mass Murderer Profile
El Español (Spain) - El Misterio del Lobo Solitario de Las Vegas: Millonario, Enamorado y 59 Muertos [The Mystery of the Lone Wolf of Las Vegas: Millionaire, In Love and 59 Dead]
Univision - Lo Que Tienen En Común (Casi) Todos Los Autores De Tiroteos Masivos: Ser Hombres [What (Almost) All Mass Shooters Have In Common: They're Men]
New Scientist - How To Spot The Warning Signs and Prevent Mass Shootings
Harvard Kennedy School's Journalist's Resource - “Don’t Name Them” – Criminologist Asks Journalists to Help Stop Mass Shootings
The New York Daily News - Stop Promoting Mass Murderers
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) - Joukkomurhaajat Tahtovat Kuuluisuutta, Ja Se Heille Myös Annetaan – Tappajien Nimien Ja Kuvien Julkaisu Pitäisi Lopettaa Kokonaan, Vaativat Amerikkalaistutkijat [Mass Murderers Want Fame - The Release of Names and Pictures of Killers Should Be Stopped Altogether, Demand American Researchers]
Nettavisen (Norway) - 150 Massedrap-Eksperter Ber Mediene Skjerpe Seg [150 Mass Killing Experts Call for Media Change]
Nexo Jornal (Brazil) - Despreparo do homem heterossexual branco para lidar com fracasso o leva à violência [White Heterosexual Men Who Can't Deal With Failure Can Lead To Violence]
Live Science - Experts Call for Mass Killers' Names to Be Kept Quiet
Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) - Mass Killers Should Remain Anonymous
San Francisco Bay Times - #TakeAKnee
Gesundheitsstadt Berlin (Germany) - Amokläufer Selten Psychisch Krank [Rampage Shooters Are Rarely Mentally Ill]
Slate - Why Are There So Few Female Mass Shooters
The National Resource Center on the Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence (The LINK Letter) - Animal Abuse Histories Found in 43% of School Shooters
Huffington Post - Setting the Stage for a National Dialogue On School Shooting Prevention
MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes - December 15, 2012 Episode (Transcript)
Northeastern News - Analyzing and Preventing School Shootings
