How often do public mass shooters target specific women?

As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

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Use this tip sheet to help you integrate the latest research into your work. It's a directory of new crime research published by the academic journals that I monitor. The directory includes, for example, this study listing:

Public Mass Shooters Who Target Specific Women: An Empirical Analysis of Target–Offender Relationships, Timing, and Key Characteristics

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, domestic abuse, offender, offending
First author: Adam Lankford (Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL USA) [+1 other author]

In this study, researchers found that nearly a quarter of public mass shooters target specific women and that 80% of targeted women were killed.

You’ll find more listings for today’s new research below.

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