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School Shooting Panic

School Shooting Panic is a sociocultural phenomenon within the broader category of moral panics, distinguished by widespread public anxiety and exaggerated media portrayal of school shootings as an imminent and pervasive threat to societal order, often leading to disproportionate policy responses and heightened surveillance in educational institutions.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States

Marisa Reddy Randazzo, Robert A. Fein, Bryan Vossekuil · 2004 · 583 citations

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Rampage: the social roots of school shootings

Choice Reviews Online · 2004 · 346 citations

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Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings

Brian V. Carolan · Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education · 2004 · 253 citations

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School shootings, the media, and public fear: Ingredientsfor a moral panic

Ronald G. Burns, Charles Crawford · Crime Law and Social Change · 1999 · 207 citations

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The school shooting/violent video game link: causal relationship or moral panic?

Christopher J. Ferguson · Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling · 2008 · 178 citations

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Authors

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  1. ED
    Elizabeth Donohue

    2 publications · 59 citations

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  2. ME
    Matthew E. Rossheim

    University of North Texas Health Science Center, United States

    1 publications · 72 citations

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  3. DG
    Dewey G. Cornell

    University of Virginia, United States

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  4. MD
    Melvin D. Livingston

    Emory University, United States

    1 publications · 72 citations

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  5. BV
    Brian V. Carolan

    Montclair State University, United States

    1 publications · 253 citations

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Institutions

21

  1. Barry University

    Miami, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  2. University of Central Florida

    Orlando, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  3. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    115 citations

  4. United States Department of Justice

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    178 citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  6. State University of New York at Oswego

    Oswego, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    63 citations

  7. University School

    Cleveland, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  8. City University of New York

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    253 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 371 citations

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  3. Change The Magazine of Higher Learning

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  4. Transformative Works and Cultures

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  5. Antipode

    1 publications · 43 citations

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