John Jay Launches National Database to Aid School Shooting Research
Researchers aim to use the study, stretching back to 1990, to help school and law enforcement officials with policies and plans.
March 20, 2018 at 11:35 AM
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A new initiative announced by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Tuesday aims to overcome the lack of hard data on school shootings through an open-source database tracking incidents nationwide.
The project, launched in partnership with the University of Texas at Dallas and Michigan State University, is believed to be the first of its kind.
“At this crucial time in our national discussion on school violence, John Jay College is proud to be at the forefront of academic research that will support local, state and national efforts to tackle this problem with evidence-based policies and interventions,” Karol Mason, president of John Jay College, said in a statement.
According to researchers, the goal of the project is to address what they say is a gap in reliable data on the individual, institutional, and community factors related to shootings in K-12 schools. By addressing this need, they hope to inform policy responses that are tailored for individuals and communities.
“The dearth of empirical data on school violence in the United States and the almost complete absence of quantitative data on perpetrators and incidents will be remedied by the production of this database and the analysis of data on the risk factors of school shootings,” said professor Joshua Freilich, the principal investigator of the project and a member of John Jay's department of criminal justice.
The database will go as far back as 1990 to include publicly known school shootings that resulted in at least one injury. The data will be used to clarify the types of incidents, look more comprehensively at the shooters themselves, and compare fatal and nonfatal events to see what, if any, intervention points can be identified and applied in the future.
The research will look to help school administrators and law enforcement be better able to understand the different kinds of school shootings and the characteristics of those that perpetuate them, in the hopes of preventing them, according to researchers.
The database is expected to be made public in the spring of 2019.
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