When a gun is not a gun The Justice Department recently analyzed eight years of shootings by Philadelphia police officers. Its report contained two sobering statistics: Fifteen percent of those shot were unarmed; and in half of these cases, an officer reportedly misidentified a “nonthreatening object (e.g., a cellphone) or movement (e.g., tugging at the waistband)” as a weapon. Many factors presumably […]
Viral map shows election results from 2016, not totals of guns, shootings The post also fails to specify what it means by “gun violence” – which can include homicides, suicides or accidental shootings, said Dr. Matthew Miller, a professor at Northeastern University who has researched gun violence.
This is Money Pastor ‘shoots his wife in front of their kids before turning the gun on himself’ after haunting final Facebook post: ‘I may not be a perfect man, but I’ll always be a family man’ Family mass killings immediately capture the attention of people in a community, but rarely garner the level of national attention received by mass killings at schools, places of worship or restaurants, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has studied familicides and mass killings for decades.
‘Not what we expected on Mother’s Day’: Police seek motive after gunman kills 6, then self, at Colorado birthday party The shooting at a Colorado Springs mobile home park early Sunday is the 13th mass killing this year, according to database compiled by USA TODAY, Northeastern University and The Associated Press.
Business Insider In a note, 2 Texas brothers who killed their family of 6 said US gun laws were a ‘joke’ after they easily acquired firearms despite a history of mental illness James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University told the Associated Press that it’s rare for there to be two siblings that are responsible for a mass shooting, adding that it’s usually a single perpetrator.
Immunization not ammunition: School safety means fewer guns James Alan Fox is the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, a member of the USA TODAY Board of Contributors and author of “Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool through College.”
Fortune Hundreds of Gun Control Bills Have Been Introduced Since Sandy Hook. Why Has Nothing Changed? The attacks in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio—occurring within 24 hours of one another—brought the national count of mass shootings to 19 this year alone, according to the AP/USA Today/Northeastern University mass murder database.
The slippery slope of not naming gunmen But as James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern University, points out in an opinion piece for USA Today, it creates a slippery slope.
New research shows that red flag gun laws save lives, but they stop suicides, not mass shootings Four mass shootings since last October, each with double-digit death tolls, has us all searching for solutions. Although the venues were varied — two high schools, a Texas church and an open-air music festival — the common denominator to these massacres is, of course, the use of firearms and an ample supply of ammunition.
Colleges assure prospective students that protesting for gun control will not affect their admission Colleges nationwide, including Northeastern University, are standing by their future students, as teenagers across the country demand stricter gun control laws in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month.
Boston Magazine Tighter Massachusetts gun law does not restrict second amendment A new report from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston shows the number of people denied the right to carry a firearm is consistent with the national average.
Guns are not the only deadly weapon for mass killers People sufficiently enraged to commit such crimes may also be motivated to find other ways, criminologist James Alan Fox of Northeastern University says. For example, four children, their mother and grandfather died in a house fire that critically injured their father in McKeesport, Pa., last October. Court documents say Ryan Williams was angry that his […]