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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Mass shootings"”.
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Socioeconomic Factors and Mass Shootings, 1982-2016
… relationship between socioeconomic factors and mass shootings. The objective of this paper was to see if economic policy making could be an effective tool for reducing the level of mass gun violence that America has been experiencing. This paper highlights the known relationship between violent …
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Why Have Mass Shootings Become More Prevalent in the United States in Recent Years?
Mass shootings in the United States have increased significantly in recent years, presenting a pressing public safety crisis. This thesis, "Why Have Mass Shootings Become More Prevalent in the United States in Recent Years?" written by Blake Hillawi, argues that the convergence of three primary …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
… effects of the American Dream, including Public Mass Shootings.
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State Legislation and Mass Shooting Prevention: A Twenty-Seven Year Study on Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Extreme Risk Protection Order Legislative Bans in the United States
Within the United States, mass shootings have been an increasing problem that inflicts immense pain on its residents. Scholars have suggested that legislative action is the only way to reduce mass shootings. However the federal government has failed to pass major legislative change in the wake of …
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An examination of media ethics and journalism pedagogy for news communicators: Theory and practice implications of a framing analysis of The Mercury (Tasmania)’s coverage of the Dunblane (March 1996) and Port Arthur (April 1996) mass shootings
Mass shootings have a birthday. After the murder of 16 people at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966, scholars from a range of disciplines have noted that the crime of random mass shootings went from an oddity, a rarity, to widespread. Inherent in the identification of a starting point is the …
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Psychological Outcomes in Asian and Asian American Survivors of the April 16th Shooting at Virginia Tech: Roles of Acculturation and Parental Overprotection
The negative impacts of mass shootings on mental health have been documented within the general trauma literature. Substantial research has also shown the Asian population to be a minority group especially vulnerable to negative psychological outcomes following trauma and stress. Acculturation has …
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Public Support For Stricter Gun Control Laws In America Following The Tragedy At Sandy Hook Elementary
… gun control laws, due in large part to several mass shootings across the nation. The purpose of this study is to explore how mass shootings influence attitudes toward gun control. More specifically, this study will examine the respondents' familiarity with the 2012 mass shooting in New Town, …
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Framing the mass shooter James Eagan Holmes: serious mental illness and gun violence
… Holmes. At the time, it was the most devastating mass shooting in U.S. history with 58 injured and 12 killed. The overarching question guiding the study asked how online news stories about the Aurora Theater Shooting frame serious mental illness and mass shootings. A content analysis was conducted …
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Unintended Politics: The Prevalence of Partisan Opinion Expression in Incidental Political Discussions
… Analysis of nearly three thousand comments on mass shootings and gun control across both political and non-political communities on Reddit showed that incidental political discussions are more likely to contain partisan opinion expression on the same issue than purposive political discussions. …
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That Could Be Me: Asian Adoptee Identity Formation and Violence
… 20th-century US-Asia wars, hate crimes, mass shootings, sexual violence, bullying, microaggressions, harassment, and more. This research includes violence that is experienced on not only an interpersonal level such as direct physical and psychological violence, but also on a cultural and …
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Open Fire: A Portrait of Gun Control in U.S. and International Newspaper Articles after the 2011 Arizona Mass Shooting
… as it pertains to the framing of violent events. Mass shootings are of particular interest because of the graphic and often senseless nature of the crime. This study looked particularly at the 2011 Tucson, Arizona mass shooting.</p><p>A content analysis of articles between February 7, 2010, and …
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HBO and the Holocaust: Conspiracy, the historical film, and public history at Wannsee
… intent and emblematic of its shift from mass shootings in the occupied East to industrial-scale murder. Conspiracy, written by Loring Mandel and directed by Frank Pierson, is an unusual historical film because it reenacts the Wannsee Conference in real time, devoid of the usual clichés …
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'Savages','Animals' and 'Criminals':Capitalism, Racial Threat and the U.S Long war on Immigration
<p>From mass shootings targeting specific ethnic, racial and religious communities to detention centers for immigrant children, it is imperative to ask of such violent contemporary phenomena: "how did we get here? How is this possible in a place like the United States?" The purpose of this study is …
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Crisis Thought
… media, infrastructure, police militarization, mass shootings, US electoral politics, and the alleged US politics of crisis. In the final analysis, this study suggests that 24/7 news media and political mobilizations of crisis thought paradoxically help secure the ontological security of …
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
… the association of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law enforcement agencies, criminal justice and mental health professionals, gun rights activists, mayors, …
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Computational Framing Analysis: Proposing And Applying an Unsupervised Entity-Centric Semantic Relations Approach
… key entities (e.g., shooters and victims in mass shooting incidents). The unsupervised method, named Semantic Relations-based Unsupervised Framing Analysis (SUFA), uses computational techniques to detect and analyze framing patterns based on semantic relations, moving beyond existing …
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Help-Seeking Behavior Following a Community Tragedy: An Application of the Andersen Model
… of students at Virginia Tech following the shootings on April 16, 2007. Data were gathered from surveys given to students at Virginia Tech three months following the shootings and at a one year follow-up. Logistic regression was used to determine variables that predicted service use. Female …
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The Role of Social Support Seeking and Social Constraints on Psychological Outcomes After Trauma: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective
… control. In the context of the Virginia Tech shootings, several social factors were examined three months after the trauma (T1) and one year later (T2) to further explore the dynamic interplay between these factors and psychological outcomes. Social support seeking was conceptualized as both a …