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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"mass shooting"”.
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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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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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Do We Pray, or Do We Shoot? An interdisciplinary approach to reconcile polarized stances: Peace and defense church theological and practical responses to the threat of a mass shooting
… to find ways to help churches keep safe from a mass shooter. To do that, I hoped to find common ground among academics, law enforcement, peace churches, and defense churches and then leverage that common ground to find ways the groups could collaborate on church safety. I observed three churches …
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RESPONDING TO HIGH-RISE ACTIVE SHOOTERS
On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting took place in Las Vegas in which the active shooter—perched on the thirty-second floor of a high-rise building—killed fifty-eight people at an outdoor concert below. Law enforcement last modified its active-shooter response practices after the mass shooting at …
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Framing the mass shooter James Eagan Holmes: serious mental illness and gun violence
… on the single case of the 2012 Aurora Theater Shooting perpetrated by James Eagan 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 …
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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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College Students' Psychological Well-Being & Resource Use in Response to the Las Vegas Shooting
… psychological impact that the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas had on students attending the University of Nevada, Reno. Levels of psychological distress before and after the shooting were collected using the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (Weiss, 2007). Awareness and use of on-campus …
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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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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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Examination of Complicated Grief, Posttraumatic Stress, and Other Psychological Reactions among Student Survivors of the April 16th Shootings at Virginia Tech
… of CG among a sample of students who survived a mass shooting. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic procedures were used to examine and confirm the factor structure of CG as reported in previous studies (e.g., Boelen & van den Bout, 2005; Dillen, Fontaine, & Verhofstadt-Denève, 2008). A …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police brutality, I argue that an African American poetic tradition persists that, while not entirely beholden to the ancient elegy, is its distant relative, along with the English and American Elegy. I argue further that while …
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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 …