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Policy & Change: An Analysis of Veteran Perpetrated Mass Shootings & Social Work's Call to Action

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Social Work, 2023
Public mass shootings are relatively rare occurrences in the United States. As such, focusing on individual-level factors to develop a prevention framework is ill-advised.
Christopher Collins
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Mass shootings, investors’ panic, and market anomalies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Do mass shootings exacerbate investors’ sentiments towards the stock market? We empirically examine this question using 1,947 cases of mass shootings in the US from February 2014 to May 2023. We document that investors react negatively to mass shootings,
Lawal, Rodiat; id_orcid   +10 more
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The Impact of Mass Shootings on Attitudes toward Gun Restrictions

open access: yesSocius, 2021
Is the American public more likely to favor stricter gun legislation in the aftermath of deadly mass shootings? The authors leverage the occurrence of several mass shootings during multiple survey waves of the General Social Survey between 1987 and 2018 ...
Arun Frey, David S. Kirk
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Considering What Counts: Mass Shooting Math

open access: yesNumeracy, 2023
News reports often cite statistics about the number of mass shootings. It is important to appreciate the definitions used when counting mass shootings. Different definitions produce very different statistical outcomes.
Joel Best
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Impact of Firearm Surveillance on Gun Control Policy: Regression Discontinuity Analysis

open access: yesJMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021
BackgroundPublic mass shootings are a significant public health problem that require ongoing systematic surveillance to test and inform policies that combat gun injuries.
Post, Lori   +10 more
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KSU Student Anxiety around Mass Shootings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This research will examine the relationships among generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and fear of mass shootings, particularly for members of minority and low socioeconomic status (SES) groups.
Kielly, Patrick   +8 more
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Income Inequality, Household Income, and Mass Shooting in the United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2018
Mass shootings are becoming a more common occurrence in the United States. Data show that mass shootings increased steadily over the past nearly 50 years.
Joseph F. Cabrera, Roy Kwon
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“Husband, father, coward, killer”: The discursive reproduction of racial inequality in media accounts of mass shooters

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Relying on more expansive criteria for defining “mass shootings” than much existing research, we examine a subset of a unique dataset incorporating 7,048 news documents covering 2,170 shootings in the United States between 2013 and 2019.
Tristan Bridges   +3 more
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The news media’s framing of mass shootings: gun access, mental illness, violent entertainment, and terrorism

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics and Law, 2021
Objective: to study the attitude of the US citizens towards mass shootings by studying the materials published in the news media.Methods: dialectical approach to cognition of social phenomena, allowing to analyze them in historical development and ...
J. R. Silva
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Existential Sources of School Shootings and Columbine

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Manifestations of school shooting or ‘columbine’, constituted by armed mass attacks and murders in educational institutions perpetrated by adolescents, have proliferated in recent years. They are marked by their unpredictability, spontaneity and cruelty.
Liudmila V. Baeva
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