Media violence, gun control, and public policy.

1996 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana M. Zuckerman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Gun Control

Firearm Instrumentality: Do Guns Make Violent Situations More Lethal?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony A. Braga ◽  
Elizabeth Griffiths ◽  
Keller Sheppard ◽  
Stephen Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Online Publication ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Firearm Availability ◽  
Do So

One of the central debates animating the interpretation of gun research for public policy is the question of whether the presence of firearms independently makes violent situations more lethal, known as an instrumentality effect, or whether determined offenders will simply substitute other weapons to affect fatalities in the absence of guns. The latter position assumes sufficient intentionality among homicide assailants to kill their victims, irrespective of the tools available to do so. Studies on the lethality of guns, the likelihood of injury by weapon type, offender intent, and firearm availability provide considerable evidence that guns contribute to fatalities that would otherwise have been nonfatal assaults. The increasing lethality of guns, based on size and technology, and identifiable gaps in existing gun control policies mean that new and innovative policy interventions are required to reduce firearm fatalities and to alleviate the substantial economic and social costs associated with gun violence. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Criminology, Volume 4 is January 13, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals Fans of Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ryan Rico
Keyword(s):  
Media Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Columbine High School ◽  
Breeding Grounds ◽  
School Shooters ◽  
Online Fans ◽  
Mainstream Culture

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in what was then the deadliest school shooting in American history. Despite causing a national panic and serving as a flash point for larger narratives on bullying, gun control, and media violence, both boys have gained active online fans. These fandoms dedicated to the Columbine shooters are widely referred to as dark examples of Internet communities, while the fans are also frequently denigrated as unstable and violent outcasts. Such dark online fandoms are yet to permeate mainstream culture or to challenge the preexisting perception of these communities as breeding grounds for the next wave of school shooters. While studies have covered the types of fans and their myriad interests, the field remains focused on more conventional examples of fan communities. In an effort to challenge and expand the object of focus when we study fandom, this qualitative study examines Columbine fans and their activity in order to understand the dominant motives they appear to have for engaging with and around such controversial figures and then concludes by exploring how this community might help us reflect more broadly on our concept of fandom. Redeeming these fans as part of diverse and complex communities of social relevance can demonstrate how even a dark fandom such as that of these Columbine shooters provides valuable cultural insights and benefits the field of fan studies.

Media and Relational Aggression

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Martins ◽  
Sarah M. Coyne ◽  
Jennifer Ruh Linder
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Aggressive Behaviors ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Media

The majority of the existing research on media aggression has focused on media violence and its effects on physical aggression. However, more recently, scholars have focused their attention on other forms of aggression in the media, such as relational aggression, and its effects on viewer attitudes and behaviors. This chapter reviews the existing theory and research on the portrayal of relational aggression in the media; how exposure to such portrayals is related to subsequent aggressive behaviors across childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood; and potential moderators and mediators of effects. We conclude with specific recommendations for future research, particularly as it relates to theory building and public policy.

Media Violence, Aggression, and Public Policy

2008 ◽  
pp. 281-300
Author(s):  
Craig A. Anderson ◽  
Douglas A. Gentile
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Media Violence

scholarly journals Public Policy and the Effects of Media Violence on Children

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Gentile ◽  
Muniba Saleem ◽  
Craig A. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Effects Of Media

The Production of Criminal Violence in America: Is Strict Gun Control the Solution?

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance K. Stell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
General Population ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Criminal Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Criminal Control

“Strict gun control”(SCG) has no clear meaning,so it is necessary to clarify it.I define SGC as an array of legally sanctioned restrictions designed to impose firearm scarcity on the general population. SGC’s public policy goal, gun scarcity, commonly rests on the predicates that “dangerous criminal control” is not the central problem for reducing the problem of criminal gun violence but rather that it is the social prevalence of the distinctively-lethal instruments (guns) by which both supposedly “good citizens” as well as violent criminals inflict a staggeringly high percentage of injury and death.Professor Zimring (who also has an essay published in this issue) is one SGC’s most distinguished, prolific and comprehensive theorists. He has advocated for handgun scarcity among the general population since at least 1969.

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