~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Emma E. Fridel, PhD, is an assistant professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. Her research focuses on the individual and contextual factors of lethal violence, including homicide, suicide, mass murder, and school shootings. Fridel is a co-author of Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder (2023), and her work has been funded by the National Institute of Justice and the National Institutes of Health. Fridel’s research on gun violence appears in various journals, including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Homicide Studies.