The following list includes book chapters, policy briefs, book reviews, and other publications authored by Jaclyn. Click on the title of the piece to be taken to the source (the link will open in a new window, so be sure your pop-up blocker is disabled). If you would like a copy of the publication (if not readily available), please contact Jaclyn directly.
Book Chapters
- Mass Shootings in the United States and Beyond – Definitions, Contexts, and Controversies (in Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies, 2024)
- Media Salience and Mass Murder: Examining Frame Changing Across Mass Shooter Events, 2000-2012 (in Assessing and Averting the Prevalence of Mass Violence, 2018)
- Commander- or Comforter-in-Chief? Examining Presidential Rhetoric in the Wake of Mass Shootings (in Assessing and Averting the Prevalence of Mass Violence, 2018)
- The Influence of Media on Public Attitudes (in The Wiley Handbook of the Psychology of Mass Shootings, 2016)
- Satirizing Mass Murder: What Many Think, Yet Few Will Say (in Gun Violence in American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy, 2016)
- Violent Media, Guns, and Mental Illness: The Three Ring Circus of Causal Factors for School Massacres, as Related in Media Discourse (in Gun Violence in Public Life, 2014)
- The Remote is Controlled by the Monster: Issues of Mediatized Violence and School Shootings (in School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age, 2012)
Policy Briefs
- [UPDATED] Can Mass Shootings be Stopped? To Address the Problem, We Must Better Understand the Phenomenon (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2023)
- Lockdown Drills: A Widely Used Yet Often Misunderstood Practice (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2022)
- [UPDATED] Can Mass Shootings Be Stopped? To Address the Problem, We Must Better Understand the Phenomenon (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2021)
- Are Metal Detectors Effective at Making Schools Safer? (WestEd, 2019)
- Assault Weapons, Mass Shootings, and Options for Lawmakers (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2019)
- Can Mass Shootings Be Stopped? To Address the Problem, We Must Better Understand the Phenomenon (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2018)
Book Reviews
- The Murder Mystique: Female Killers and Pop Culture (in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, 2013)
- Real-Life Monsters: A Psychological Examination of the Serial Murderer (in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, 2013)
- Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK (in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, 2013)
- Serial Killers: Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility (in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, 2012)
Blogs
- Lessons Learned from the US Department of Justice’s Uvalde Review: Key Takeaways for Policymakers, Practitioners, and Schools (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2024)
- 2023 Year in Review: Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2023)
- The School Lockdown Drill Dashboard: A New Resource from the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2023)
- Priorities for Reducing Gun Violence: Key Takeaways from the RGVRC Webinar (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2023)
- For Gun Violence Survivors Awareness Week, We Must Honor and Support All Who Are Impacted (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2023)
- Updated Insights from the Gun Violence Data Dashboard (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2023)
- 2022 Year-in-Review: Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2022)
- Mass Shootings: The Motives Vary, but the Path to Violence Is Largely the Same (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2022)
- Arming Teachers: Does the Proposed Policy Miss the Mark? (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2018)
- A Regional Breakdown of Mass Shootings (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2018)
- Mass Shootings Can Be Prevented … and the Media Are a Good Place To Start (Rockefeller Institute of Government / Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, 2018)