Mitchell L. Doucette
Mitchell L. Doucette, PhD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University and a Research Scientist at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center’s. He recently received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he was a student member of the Center for Injury Research and Policy. As a scholar, he uses multiple methodologies to prevent injury and violence, with a particular focus on workplace violence and safe firearm access in the elderly population.
What does the data tell us about trends in workplace homicides?
In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, 65% of workplace homicides occurred during robberies. Now, new research published in Injury Epidemiology, finds that this figure has fallen to 46%, with 54% being attributable to non-robbery events, such as an interpersonal arguments or mass shootings. Mitchell Doucette, lead author of the study, speculates on the causes of this shift towards non-robbery related crimes and argues that prevention measures must also shift accordingly.
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On February 15th, 2019, a worker, about to be fired from his job in Aurora, IL, brought a firearm into his meeting with human resources and killed five employees. At a press conference later that day, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman describing the crime, stated, “I hate that we have to use the term classic workplace shooting.” This was not always true.
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