Does media coverage of mass public shootings create a contagion effect?

Publication Title

Significance

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

Sociology

Publication Date

1-25-2022

Abstract

Mass public shootings in the United States have increased in number and severity in recent years, and there has been a corresponding rise in media reporting of such incidents. Does media coverage of these events lead to a short-term increase in the probability of additional shootings? James Alan Fox, Nathan E. Sanders, Emma E. Fridel, Grant Duwe and Michael Rocque investigate.

Comments

Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01610

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