Understanding School Shooters: Lessons from the U.S. Secret Service/U.S. Department of Education Study
	Marisa R. Randazzo, Ph.D.
	President, Threat Assessment Resources International, LLC
This presentation describes research conducted by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education on school shootings throughout the Unites States. The talk will be given by one of the study’s co-directors and co-author of the Secret Service/Department of Education model for school threat assessment. The presentation includes an overview of how the research was conducted, major findings from examination of 37 school shootings, and excerpts from interviews with school shooters. The presentation also includes implications for prevention, discussion of a model for school threat assessment, and examples of successful application of the model where school shootings have been prevented.
Dr. Marisa Randazzo is President of Threat Assessment Resources International, a private company providing threat assessment training, consultation, and research services. For ten years Dr. Randazzo was with the U.S. Secret Service, as their chief research psychologist, where she directed research on assassination and other targeted violence. She also served as Co-Director of the major federal study of school shootings conducted by the Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education and is co-author of their model of school threat assessment. Dr. Randazzo has trained over 10,000 law enforcement and school professionals throughout the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Her research has been credited with preventing planned attacks. Dr. Randazzo has testified before Congress and is interviewed regularly by major television, radio, and print news outlets. She has written extensively on threat assessment and violence prevention and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Threat Assessment. Dr. Randazzo received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Social Psychology, and a B.A. in Psychology and Religion from Williams College. In 2005, Dr. Randazzo was given the Williams College Bicentennial Medal for her work in preventing violence.