Jillian Peterson

Jillian Peterson is an American scholar of criminology and criminal justice who directs the Forensic Psychology Program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She holds a doctorate in psychology and social behavior from the University of California, Irvine, and co-authored The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic with James Densley, based on a three year National Institute of Justice grant studying mass shooting perpetrators, which won a 2022 Minnesota Book Award. Peterson also co-founded The Violence Prevention Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit research center focused on reducing violence through research and analysis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/