The Copycat Effect

Author : Loren Coleman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416505547
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Copycat Effect written by Loren Coleman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE... A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home -- and for months afterward child abductions are frantically reported on an almost daily basis. A surfer is attacked by a shark -- and the public spends an entire summer fearing an onslaught of the deadly underwater predators. Why do the terrible events we see in the media always seem to lead to more of the same? Noted author and cultural behaviorist Loren Coleman explores how the media's over-saturated coverage of murders, suicides, and deadly tragedies makes an impact on our society. This is The Copycat Effect -- the phenomenon through which violent events spawn violence of the same type. From recognizing the emerging patterns of the Copycat Effect, to how we can deal with and counteract its consequences as individuals and as a culture, Loren Coleman has uncovered a tragic flaw of the information age -- a flaw which must be corrected before the next ripples of violence spread.

Author : Loren Coleman
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Copycat Effect written by Loren Coleman and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a landmark book as shocking as it is vital, a renowned expert explores the widespread, contagious violence that is triggered by our media and popular culture.

Author : Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Copycat Crime written by Jacqueline B. Helfgott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the new phenomena of copycat crime inspired by technology and the hyperreality fueled in some people by digital culture and video games. Across her 30-year career in criminology, author Jacqueline Helfgott has watched with fascination and fear as the world has shifted from a place where one-dimensional televised news each evening and newspapers bought each morning provided the only information on crimes and killings. Now, nonstop, instant global news coverage on 24-hour television and the internet enables people to see and replay not only crime, violence, terrorism, and murder coverage provided by journalists in real time, but also Facebook and YouTube feeds filmed by the criminals themselves while perpetrating the crimes. In this riveting text about the consequences of our technical, digital, and cultural changes, Helfgott focuses on how these advances are perpetuating this era's new and more massively deadly acts. The book intertwines vignettes from current events, perpetrator statements, police reports, and current research to show how copycat crimes are linked to media, technology, and our digital culture. Concluding with recommendations to reduce the criminogenic effects of media, technology, and digital culture, this book also includes an appendix listing technology- and media-influenced copycat crimes.

Author : Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412904870
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Behavior written by Jacqueline B. Helfgott and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an interdisciplinary overview of theories of crime, explanations of how and why criminal typologies are developed, literature reviews for each of the major crime catagories, and discussions of how theories of crime are used at different stages of the criminal justice process.

Author : Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351295225
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Suicide written by Thomas Niederkrotenthaler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in the world, in the next forty seconds, a person is going to commit suicide. Globally, suicides account for 50 percent of all violent deaths among men and 71 percent for women. Despite suicide prevention programs, therapy, and pharmacological treatments, the suicide rate is either increasing or remaining high around the world. Media and Suicide holds traditional and emergent media accountable for influencing an individual’s decision to commit suicide. Global experts present research, historical analysis, theoretical disputes (including discussion on the Werther and Papageno effects), and policy regarding the media’s impact on suicide. They answer questions about the effects of different types of media and storytelling, show how the impact of social media can be diminished, discuss internet bullying, mass-shootings and mass-suicides, show the effects of recovery stories, and much more. The editors also present examples of suicide policy in the United States, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Hong Kong on how to best communicate reporting guidelines to decrease the copycat effect, especially in less developed nations where most of the world’s nearly one million suicides occur each year. Although there is much work to be done to prevent media-influenced suicide, this innovative volume will contribute a large piece to this complex puzzle.

Author : Peggy Rathmann
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545337577
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruby the Copycat written by Peggy Rathmann and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby keeps copying her classmate, until she learns how much fun it is to be herself. From Peggy Rathmann, the author of the bestselling GOOD NIGHT, GORILLA!Ruby is a copycat! On the day Angela wears a red bow in her hair, Ruby returns from lunch with a red bow in her hair. When Angela wears a flowered sweater, Ruby returns from lunch wearing a flowered sweater. Ruby even copies Angela's poem!Fortunately, Ruby has the patient and perceptive Miss Hart as her teacher. Miss Hart helps Ruby discover her own creative resources, which keeps Ruby literally jumping for joy!In this sensitive and endearing tale, Peggy Rathmann reveals, with charmingly offbeat illustrations, the universal struggle of a child trying to discover her own individuality.

Author : Loren Coleman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416539441
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysterious America written by Loren Coleman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and noted cryptozoologist Loren Coleman set out on the ultimate mission: to uncover the fun and intriguing phenomena that exist right here in the United States. In Mysterious America, a fun and compulsively readable guidebook to America's most popular local legends, he prepares readers for their own adventure -- where to find the unbelievable spectacles on their journey, including: Phantom panthers haunting eastern North America Bay State ghosts and spirits Mad gassers in Illinois Champ, the famous Lake Champlain monster The Minnesota Iceman The Missouri Momo and the infamous Eastern Bigfoot And many more! Coleman's witty insight and astonishing experiences will captivate followers of Charles Fort and just-plain-curious readers alike. For, as Coleman frankly reveals, these strange creatures and unimaginable wonders may lie just beyond your own backyard....

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481450026
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echo the Copycat written by Joan Holub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to fit in at Mount Olympus Academy, new girl and forest-mountain nymph Echo copies the mannerisms of all the other students, but instead of ingratiating herself to her classmates, it only seems to grate on them.

Author : Eleanor Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599908956
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook written by Eleanor Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like the Stink-O-Meter, the Kablovsky Copter, and the Nightsneak Goggles. All that tinkering comes in handy when the trio discovers an evil scientist's dastardly plan to rob a museum. Can three inventors, armed with their wacky creations, hope to defeat this criminal mastermind?

Author : Steve Macek
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452908694
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Nightmares written by Steve Macek and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: