The more deaths there were, the more news reports used the perpetrator’s name. But something changed in 2012. The Brooklyn subway shooting may be an exception.
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Not everyone has the same reaction to trauma, or recovers in the same way, or in a set time frame.
Jurors will likely be presented with conflicting notions of sanity and insanity. And they will be forced to confront widely held cultural assumptions about mental illness and violence.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The Founding Fathers of the American Constitution might…
The immediate information emerging in the aftermath of James Holmes’ murder rampage in Aurora, Colorado, makes a good case for the idea that media violence begets the real thing. A closer look, however…
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Sydney
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Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society; Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Strategic Media, University of Memphis
