Exploring school rampage shootings: Research, theory, and policy

Rocque, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2011.11.001

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“…Yet because these events are rare, most of the evidence on the features of rampage shooters is based on intensive case history studies as well as analyses of databases such as the School-Associated Violent Deaths maintained by the CDC (2014) on school-related homicides. This review relies primarily upon an in-depth study of all school shootings from 1974 through 2001 (Newman, Fox, Harding, Mehta, & Roth, 2004), and a review of research on school shootings through 2011 (Rocque, 2012). Newman and her colleagues (2004) interviewed 163 people in two sites that experienced extensive injury and deaths in school mass shootings: Heath, Kentucky, and Westside, Arkansas.…”

Section: School Rampage Shootingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know.

Bushman¹,

Newman²,

Calvert³

et al. 2016

American Psychologist

142

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School shootings tear the fabric of society. In the wake of a school shooting, parents, pediatricians, policymakers, politicians, and the public search for "the" cause of the shooting. But there is no single cause. The causes of school shootings are extremely complex. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School rampage shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, we wrote a report for the National Science Foundation on what is known and not known about youth violence. This article summarizes and updates that report. After distinguishing violent behavior from aggressive behavior, we describe the prevalence of gun violence in the United States and age-related risks for violence. We delineate important differences between violence in the context of rare rampage school shootings, and much more common urban street violence. Acts of violence are influenced by multiple factors, often acting together. We summarize evidence on some major risk factors and protective factors for youth violence, highlighting individual and contextual factors, which often interact. We consider new quantitative "data mining" procedures that can be used to predict youth violence perpetrated by groups and individuals, recognizing critical issues of privacy and ethical concerns that arise in the prediction of violence. We also discuss implications of the current evidence for reducing youth violence, and we offer suggestions for future research. We conclude by arguing that the prevention of youth violence should be a national priority.

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Section: School Rampage Shootingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know.

Bushman¹,

Newman²,

Calvert³

et al. 2016

American Psychologist

142

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“…This contributed to public fears and concerns with national security. Other researchers identify the school shooting moral panic of the 1990s as an example of the link between mass shootings and public fear (Burns & Crawford, 1999;Rocque, 2012). Duwe (2000), in particular, finds that the news media are more likely to sensationalize and overemphasize the most atypical instances of mass murder.…”

Section: Media and Fearmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Duwe (2000), in particular, finds that the news media are more likely to sensationalize and overemphasize the most atypical instances of mass murder. As Rocque (2012) notes, some of these incidents involve middle-class shooters in middleclass areas. These attract a disproportionate amount of media attention because they are acts of violence that do not occur in the inner city or other impoverished areas as some might expect (Rocque, 2012).…”

Section: Media and Fearmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Rocque (2012) notes, some of these incidents involve middle-class shooters in middleclass areas. These attract a disproportionate amount of media attention because they are acts of violence that do not occur in the inner city or other impoverished areas as some might expect (Rocque, 2012). Comparing media portrayals of urban school violence, including shootings, to similar incidents in rural settings, Menifield, Winfield, Homa, and Cunningham (2001) find that newspapers are much less likely to report the urban incidents even though they are more common.…”

Section: Media and Fearmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Responding to violence with guns: Mass shootings and gun acquisition

Wallace

2015

The Social Science Journal

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a b s t r a c tAlthough some sources have observed an increase in the number of gun purchases following mass shootings, empirical research investigating this pattern is limited. Appraisal Theory suggests that mass shootings contribute to fear of victimization through media exposure. Desire for self-protection is the primary reason many individuals own and purchase guns. This paper examines this link by assessing the effects of six mass shootings that took place in the 2000-2010 time period. This study examines effects for gun acquisition nationally and regionally as well as timing-specific patterns in gun acquisition following these events. Gun acquisition counts are approximated from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Results indicate a positive but delayed association between mass shootings and the number of NICS background checks. Implications of this finding for violence and possibilities for future research are discussed.

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“…Rocque (2012) found media portrayals overemphasize elements of school shooting events, and that the disproportionate coverage given to these events skews the perceptions of risk that is appropriate for the public. Such perceptions can in turn create an increased level of anxiety in individuals, which may spark increased information sharing (MacLeod & Rutherford, 1992).…”

Section: Mean World Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%