Latest Mass Shootings Prompt Experts to Overhaul Theories Explaining Them

Source: The GuardianProfilers work toward new understanding of what drives ‘mission-oriented maximum violence’ and how to stop it, as earlier theories fall out of favour. Criminal profilers and behavioural analysts struggling to understand the impulses that lead to mass shootings like last week’s carnage in San Bernardino are racing to update their prediction and prevention models as the problem evolves in new, previously unthinkable directions. A generation ago..