#violenceprevention — Public Fediverse posts

Season 2 Episode 4
'Trooper Angel'

In the latest episode of 'Jennifer's Angels', two high school students sit down and chat with Principal Rob Robledo.

Next, in Gamer Corner, I talk with Robin Ghosh, creator of 'UnEarth', about video games and their unique ability to empower teens through interactive narrative.

📻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSj-b_xzUE

#podcast #communication #ViolencePrevention #education #nonprofit #resilience #ConflictResolution #videogames @stopTDV @gamingagainstv @resiliencegames

Louisville faith groups turn guns into garden tools with disposal event https://www.allforgardening.com/1788107/louisville-faith-groups-turn-guns-into-garden-tools-with-disposal-event/ #garden #GraceHopePresbyterianChurch #GunDisposal #GunsToGardens #ViolencePrevention

Violence has a linguistic dimension that's often overlooked.

A study in the Turkish Journal of Hygiene and Experimental Biology found a clear link between physical violence and "discursive violence" — the harmful language of influential figures, which followers apply more aggressively. Three factors are at play: the perpetrator, the victim, and the cause of violence. Media and law focus on the first two; the hidden driver is the third.

Family, social and psychological support mechanisms, peers, education, and media all matter. But respectful language isn't just politeness — it can be an evidence-based violence prevention strategy.

https://turkhijyen.org/jvi.aspx?pdir=turkhijyen&plng=tur&un=THDBD-92331&look4=

#Law #LawFedi #ViolencePrevention

Dr. S. Lee Funk draws on more than 35 years of experience working with young people with emotional disturbances to argue that rampage killings are not random. They follow predictable patterns rooted in specific conditions and mindsets. My 5-star review is on Medium. Not light reading, but essential reading for mental health professionals, educators, law enforcement, and policymakers.
#BookReview #Psychology #Criminology #PublicSafety #ViolencePrevention
https://medium.com/@AngieMangino/why-rampage-killers-emerge-conditions-and-characteristics-66efe4a81ed4?sk=62612d0aed1fc533c6c33eb780497764

Dr. S. Lee Funk has spent more than 35 years studying the psychological origins of violence. His academic work dismantles the myth that rampage killings are random, replacing assumption with rigorous, multi-disciplinary research. If you want to understand one of the most urgent public safety challenges of our time, his https://Academia.edu profile is a good place to start.
#Psychology #Criminology #ViolencePrevention #PublicSafety #AcademicResearch
https://stevenleefunk.academia.edu

Rampage killings are not random. They follow identifiable patterns rooted in specific conditions and mindsets. That is the central argument of Dr. S. Lee Funk's Why Rampage Killers Emerge, a rigorously researched work drawing on more than 35 years of experience. Essential reading for mental health professionals, educators, law enforcement, and policymakers. Reviewed by Angie Mangino.
#Psychology #Criminology #PublicSafety #ViolencePrevention #Education
https://drsleefunk.com

Dr. S. Lee Funk, author of Why Rampage Killers Emerge and How Rampage Killers Interpret Their Worlds, sat down with Authority Magazine's Jake Frankel to reflect on more than 30 years working with students with serious emotional challenges. His thoughts on ethics, scholarship, and the underestimated role of performative violence in extreme behavior make this interview well worth reading.
#Psychology #Criminology #ViolencePrevention #AuthorInterview #PublicSafety
https://medium.com/authority-magazine/dr-s-lee-funk-on-the-5-things-i-wish-someone-told-me-when-i-first-became-a-doctor-560c7d4a46c7

@fdroidorg

Our nonprofit group's award winning, prosocial, non-violent video games were removed by #Google.

🤥 They claimed that we had misled them by classifying them as #educational. Google purported to know more about our work than we do.

🎮 Our free games about #consent and #healthyrelationships were unilaterally removed from Google Play, making it much tougher for us to reach and help young people.

🧡 The ubiquity of smartphones make game marketplaces a necessary channel for us to reach #adolescents directly.

#indiegames #publichealth #violenceprevention #DVAM #antitrust #criticalthinking #dh #undueinfluence #duopoly #education #students @stopTDV

Misogyny isn’t just a cultural problem—it’s a key driver of political extremism and mass violence. Sociologist Cynthia Miller-Idriss reveals how hatred of women fuels radicalization and why ignoring it blinds us to deeper threats. A must-listen for understanding the roots of violent ideologies. #Misogyny #Extremism #GenderJustice #ViolencePrevention
#The1APodcast
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5561120/the-link-between-misogyny-and-violent-extremism

Smith attributes much of the drops in violent #crime to a focus in #Chicago on the #systemic drivers of #violence, rather than the #militaristic approach #Trump has touted in #WashingtonDC. She encouraged more federal investment in researching these types of #ViolencePrevention strategies.

“Kind of out of necessity Chicago has become a hub for innovation in gun violence prevention,” she said.

#law #US #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup2

Our NGO is excited to be a member of Project Tidal.

This NIH-funded project is training early-career researchers in the use of big data analytics and digital health tools to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) among pregnant / post-partum women.

The inaugural cohort are at Emory this week for in-person training. Yesterday, I was honored to teach them about theory and application of digital health games for violence prevention.

It's very encouraging to talk with these bright and enthusiastic researchers about ways technology can be used to prevent violence!

🌐 https://www.project-tidal.org/

#publichealth #datascience #IPV #games #mhealth #research #prevention #education #violenceprevention #bigdata #science #health #trauma @stopTDV @publichealth @datascience

Deadly decisions?
Trump cuts gut #anticrime programs as summer #violence looms

#Violenceprevention programs are dreading a summer #crimespike after the #Trumpadministration cut $500 million pledged to more than 550 organizations in 48 states.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/06/trump-cuts-crime-rates-community-reaction-panic/84027498007/

I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):

Content warning: Childhood trauma

https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111490472007434009

https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111187258270534141

I want to protect children.
I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.

I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.

That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.

#mh #trauma #pedagogy #education #school #SaveSpace #MentalHygiene #therapy #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #AbusePrevention #ViolencePrevention #EmotionalIntelligence #SocialIntelligence #empathy #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedPedagogy #SocialPedagogy #TraumaPedagogy #SozialPädagogik #TraumaPädagogik #FediLZ