October 19, 2021 from 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm
The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for “The Intersections of Intimate Partner Homicide, Firearms, and Mass Shootings” training webinar. In this session, Dr. April M. Zeoli presents research on intimate partner homicide, mass shootings, and firearm laws designed for their prevention. She will discuss research findings on the overlap between domestic violence and mass shootings, focusing on the avenues for prevention this overlap may provide. This will involve discussion of research evidence on the association of specific firearm laws on intimate partner homicide and/or mass shootings. Virginia's evidence-based firearm laws will also be highlighted.
Presenter:
April M. Zeoli, PhD, MPH
April M. Zeoli, PhD, MPH is a leading expert on the intersection of intimate partner violence and gun violence. Her interdisciplinary research—which aims to bring together the fields of public health, criminology, and criminal justice—is focused on the impact of state-level firearm laws on homicide, particularly intimate partner homicide, and the implementation of those policies at the local level. She is primarily interested in firearm policies that restrict high-risk individuals from purchase and possession of guns and those that facilitate the implementation of firearm restriction policies. An associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, April is on the editorial boards of the scholarly journals Injury Prevention and Criminology & Public Policy and has served as the research expert for the National Domestic Violence and Firearms Resource Center. She has earned national recognition for her research, on which she gave a TEDMED Talk entitled “The frightening frequency of family mass shootings."
Partial In-service Credit (PIC): This training is approved for two hours PIC credit for law enforcement.
Participant Registration and Cost: This training webinar is free. Participants need to register in advance for the training. Please click on the registration button above to register.
