Add to ORKGThe author compares cinematic constructions of mass shooting perpetrators, victims, and social factors against academic knowledge and news media to determine how films perpetuate myths, reinforce academic knowledge, and act as a source of popular criminology. Cinematic findings highlight perpetrators as young, White, school shooters, and motivation types including fame seeking and defeated by society. Films construct diverse forms of victimization involving direct victims, indirect victims, and perpetrators as victims. Finally, movies emphasize sensational news media coverage as a contributing social factor. Implications of these findings suggest films blend with news media misconceptions and perpetuate myths that reinforce stereotypes of c...
Mass shootings constitute a recurrent and most violent phenomenon in the U.S. and elsewhere. This pa...
This paper analyzes mass school shootings in the United States, stressing their root causes, indicat...
As media continues to integrate into everyday life, it is essential to critically examine the media ...
The author compares cinematic constructions of mass shooting perpetrators, victims, and social facto...
This study examines the reality and news media coverage of all mass shootings in the United States f...
The Columbine High School shooting of 1999 has become a cultural icon for school shootings in the Un...
Topics related to crime and the criminal justice system comprise a majority of topics discussed in t...
This paper discusses the effects media coverage and media portrayal have on mass shootings in the Un...
Newsmaking criminology argues that criminologists should interpret, influence, and even shape the di...
In the last 40 years, social scientists have provided important insights into the different characte...
In December 2012, twenty elementary school children and six adult staff members were shot and killed...
This study examines the narratives that people who are deeply interested in school shootings tell ab...
Abstract This article offers a critical appraisal of the widespread argument that violent media cont...
The rise in mass shootings and mass media over the past twenty years has been connected by cultural ...
When school shootings occur in primary or secondary schools they draw a massive amount of media atte...
Mass shootings constitute a recurrent and most violent phenomenon in the U.S. and elsewhere. This pa...
This paper analyzes mass school shootings in the United States, stressing their root causes, indicat...
As media continues to integrate into everyday life, it is essential to critically examine the media ...
The author compares cinematic constructions of mass shooting perpetrators, victims, and social facto...
This study examines the reality and news media coverage of all mass shootings in the United States f...
The Columbine High School shooting of 1999 has become a cultural icon for school shootings in the Un...
Topics related to crime and the criminal justice system comprise a majority of topics discussed in t...
This paper discusses the effects media coverage and media portrayal have on mass shootings in the Un...
Newsmaking criminology argues that criminologists should interpret, influence, and even shape the di...
In the last 40 years, social scientists have provided important insights into the different characte...
In December 2012, twenty elementary school children and six adult staff members were shot and killed...
This study examines the narratives that people who are deeply interested in school shootings tell ab...
Abstract This article offers a critical appraisal of the widespread argument that violent media cont...
The rise in mass shootings and mass media over the past twenty years has been connected by cultural ...
When school shootings occur in primary or secondary schools they draw a massive amount of media atte...
Mass shootings constitute a recurrent and most violent phenomenon in the U.S. and elsewhere. This pa...
This paper analyzes mass school shootings in the United States, stressing their root causes, indicat...
As media continues to integrate into everyday life, it is essential to critically examine the media ...