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A Descriptive Analysis of the Characteristics of School Shootings Across Five Decades
Research on understanding school shootings has traditionally focused on the individual level factors surrounding several highly publicized mass...
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Theorizing Mass Shootings
Mass shootings constitute an extremely rare form of violence and because of their rarity, they are difficult to not only generalize on, but to study...
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Pathways to School Shooting Subculture: Re-thinking Theory Across Strain, Imitation, and Digital Mediation
Since the Columbine High School-massacre, the world continues to witness school shootings. The current state of research presents us with nuanced...
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Mass Shootings, Why CEE Regions Need Attention
This chapter identifies a gap in knowledge of mass shootings that arose across central and eastern European contexts through reviewing literature on...
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School Shooting
Quantitative Erhebungen verzeichnen eine kontinuierliche Häufigkeitszunahme von angedrohten oder tatsächlich ausgeführten School Shootings weltweit...
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Administration of Security and Safety in the Schools
Providing for the safety and security of the physical plant and the students and the staff of the schools in the United States has traditionally been...
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Increased Prescribing of Psychotropic Drugs or School-Based Services for Children with Disabilities? Associations of These Self-control-Boosting Strategies with Juvenile Violence at the State Level
The increasing rates at which psychotropic drugs have been prescribed to children and adolescents in the USA in the last three decades (since the...
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Portrayals of gun violence victimization and public support for firearm policies: an experimental analysis
ObjectivesThis study examines how characteristics of victims and types of incidents described in a media account of gun violence affect public...
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Introduction
As the relative frequency of mass shootings has increased since the late 1990s in the United States, social scientists have given great attention to...
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The Criminal Selfie: Conveying Grievance While Recording and Live Streaming Antisocial Behavior
Despite attempts to regulate content, social media platforms continue to host images of antisocial behavior and crime. These images include dashboard...
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Conclusion
This chapter overviews the results of empirical investigations produced throughout the book and delves into the implications of these findings for...
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Mass shootings and their asymmetric effect on societal armament
Mixed evidence has been found for a positive relationship between mass shootings and civilian armament. This study suggests that the causal effect of...
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Past and Present Trends in Gun Violence and Gangs and Their Implications in Belize: 2011–2020
Trending upwards since 2000, Belize consistently tops the list of countries with the highest homicide rates in the world. A report published by the...
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American Policing Strategies to Prevent Community Violence
A major threat to the health and safety of all Americans is gun-related violence. It has been estimated that 316 people are shot in the United States...
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Prevention and Criminal Justice Reform
Jails, prisons, juvenile detention centers, and probation officers’ caseloads are increasingly populated by racial and ethnic minorities, youth with...
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Translational Criminology, Politics, and Promising Practices
Over the last two decades, there has been growing momentum behind efforts to produce policy-related research that is both rigorous and theoretically...
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Disentangling the Impact of Covid-19: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Crime in New York City
The Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions put in place in New York City were followed by an abrupt shift in movement away from public spaces and into...
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