Publications

Books and Special Issues

Madfis, E., & Lankford, A. (Eds.). (2023). All-American massacre: The tragic role of American culture and society in mass shootings. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Madfis, E. (2020). How to stop school rampage killing: Lessons from averted mass shootings and bombings. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Lankford, A., & Madfis, E. (Editors). (2018). Special Issue on “Media coverage of mass killers.” American Behavioral Scientist, 62(2), 151-279. 

Madfis, E. (2014). The risk of school rampage: Assessing and preventing threats of school violence. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

Walach, V., & Kupka, P. Interview of Eric Madfis. (2024). Focus on what can really help: Create a positive school climate, build systems of support, promote information sharing. Czech Journal of Criminology, 1-18.

Arford, T., & Madfis, E. (2022). Whitewashing criminology: A critical tour of Cesare Lombroso’s Museum of Criminal Anthropology. Critical Criminology, 30, 723–740.

Hawes, J., & Madfis, E. (2022). Defining rampage violence across completion status: Towards a more comprehensive model. Journal of Mass Violence Research, 1(2), 42-52.  

Madfis, E., Hirschfield, P., & Addington, L. (2021). School securitization and its alternatives: The social, political, and contextual drivers of school safety policy and practice. School Psychology Review, 50(2-3), 191-205.

Schildkraut, J., Elsass, J., Haenfler, R., Klocke, B., Madfis, E., & Muschert, G. (2021). Moral panic, fear of crime, and school shootings: Does location matter? Sociological Inquiry, 91(2), 426-454.

Sommer, F., Leuschner, V., Fiedler, N., Madfis, E., & Scheithauer, H. (2020).  The role of shame in developmental trajectories towards severe targeted school violence: An in-depth multiple-case study. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 51, 101386.

Madfis, E., & Vysotsky, S. (2020). Exploring subcultural trajectories: Racist skinhead disengagement, desistance, and countercultural value persistence. Sociological Focus, 52(3), 221-235. 

Lankford, A., Adkins, K.G., & Madfis, E. (2019). Are the deadliest mass shootings preventable? An assessment of leakage, information reported to law enforcement, and firearms acquisition prior to attacks in the United States. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 35(3), 315-341.

Arluke, A., Lankford, A., & Madfis, E. (2018). Harming animals and massacring humans: Characteristics of active and mass shooters who abused animals. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 36(6), 739-751.

Madfis, E., & Cohen, J.W. (2018). Female involvement in school rampage plots.  Violence and Gender, 5(2), 81-86.

Lankford, A., & Madfis, E. (2018). Media coverage of mass killers: Content, consequences, and solutions. American Behavioral Scientist, 62(2), 151-162. 

Lankford, A., & Madfis, E. (2018). Don’t name them, don’t show them, but report everything else: A pragmatic proposal for denying mass shooters the attention they seek and deterring future offenders. American Behavioral Scientist, 62(2), 260-279. 

Madfis, E. (2017). In search of meaning: Are school rampage shootings random and senseless violence? The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 151(1), 21-35.

Madfis, E., & Cohen, J.W. (2016). Critical criminologies of the present and future: Left realism, left idealism, and what’s left in between. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order. 43(4), 1-21.

Madfis, E. (2016). “It’s better to overreact”: School officials’ fear and perceived risk of rampage attacks and the criminalization of American public schools. Critical Criminology, 24(1), 39-55.

Vysotsky, S., & Madfis, E. (2015). Uniting the right: Anti-immigration organizing and the legitimation of extreme racist organizations. Journal of Hate Studies, 12(1), 129-151.

Madfis, E. (2014). Averting school rampage: Student intervention amid a persistent code of silence. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 12(3), 229-249.

Madfis, E. (2014). Triple entitlement and homicidal anger: An exploration of the intersectional identities of American mass murderers. Men and Masculinities, 17(1), 67-86.

Arluke, A., & Madfis, E. (2014). Animal abuse as a warning sign of school massacres: A critique and refinement. Homicide Studies, 18(1), 7-22.

Madfis, E., & Arford, T. (2013). The dilemmas of embodied symbolic representation: Regret in contemporary American tattoo narratives. The Social Science Journal, 50(4), 547-556.

Madfis, E. (2012). Across crimes, criminals, and contexts: Traps along the troubled path towards a general theory of crime. Critical Criminology, 20(4), 429-445.

Levin, J., & Madfis, E. (2009). Mass murder at school and cumulative strain: A sequential model. American Behavioral Scientist, 52(9), 1227-1245.

Hartley, J., Madfis, E., Pell, E., & Potter, D. (2006). States’ initiatives to address the needs of persons dually diagnosed with psychiatric and developmental disabilities. Community Living Briefs, 4(2), 1-12.  

Book Chapters

Madfis, E., & Lankford, A. (2023, In press). Mass shootings and American culture and society. In E. Madfis & A. Lankford (Ed.) All-American massacre: The tragic role of American culture and society in mass shootings. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Madfis, E., & Cohen, J. Gender and mass shootings. (2023, In press). In K.A. Bogle (Ed.) Gender-based crime: Learning through experts and cases. San Diego, CA: Cognella.

Madfis, E. (2018). Insight from averted mass shootings. In J. Schildkraut (Ed.) Mass shootings in America: Understanding the debates, causes, and responses (pp. 79-84). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Books.

Levin, J., & Madfis, E. (2018, In Press). Rampage school shootings. In A.J. Treviño (Ed.) The Cambridge handbook of social problems. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Ackerman, A., Furman, R., Cohen, J., Madfis, E., & Sanchez, M. (2015). The use of masculinities in the understanding and treatment of male sexual offenders. In A. Ackerman & R. Furman (Eds.) Sexual crimes: Transnational problems and global perspectives (pp. 44-63). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Vysotsky, S., & Madfis, E. (2014). White supremacist stigma management and legitimation via anti-immigration activism: The case of the keystone state skinheads. In A. Ackerman & R. Furman (Eds.) The criminalization of immigration: Contexts and consequences (pp. 129-146). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Muschert, G.W., & Madfis, E. (2013). Fear of school violence in the post-Columbine era. In G.W. Muschert, S. Henry, N. Bracy, & A. Peguero (Eds.). Responding to school violence: Confronting the Columbine effect (pp. 13-34). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Madfis, E., & Levin, J. (2013). School rampage in international perspective: The salience of cumulative strain theory. In N. Böckler, W. Heitmeyer, P. Sitzer, & T. Seeger (Eds). School shootings: International research, case studies, and concepts for prevention (pp. 79-104). New York, NY: Springer.

Levin, J., & Madfis, E. (2012). Cultivating bias in the media: Problematic presentations and future prospects. In D. Bissler & J. Conners (Eds.) The harms of crime media: Essays on the perpetuation of racism, sexism and class stereotypes (pp. 239-247). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc.

Levin, J., & Madfis, E. (2008). The changing qualities of violence in American popular culture. In D. Pardue (Ed.) Ruminations on violence (pp. 181-191). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews

Madfis, E. (2017). Book review of Mass shootings: Media, myths, and realities by Jaclyn Schildkraut and H. Jaymi Elsass. Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books. Rutgers School of Law and School of Criminal Justice.

Madfis, E. (2014). Postmodern criminology. In J. M. Miller (Ed.) The encyclopedia of theoretical criminology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Madfis, E. (2014). Mass murder. In J.S. Albanese (Ed.) The encyclopedia of criminology & criminal justice. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Madfis, E. (2008). Ritual killing. In A. Embar-Seddon & A. Pass (Eds.) Forensic science. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc.

Madfis, E. (2006). Book review of Federal narcotic laws and the war on drugs: Money down a rat hole by Thomas C. Rowe. BiMonthly Review of Law Books, 17 (5), 15-16.