His areas of scholarly interest lie in the sociological study of crime and social problems, including the mass media framing of high profile crimes, school shootings, missing persons, and social control through surveillance technologies. Muschert’s extensive work on school shootings includes the 2012 book, School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age, which he co-edited, and his 2007 study, “The Columbine Victims and the Myth of the Juvenile Superpredator,” which appeared in Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.