The Copycat Effect

The Copycat Effect
Title The Copycat Effect PDF eBook
Author Loren Coleman
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 324
Release 2004-09-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1416505547

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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.

Criminal Behavior

Criminal Behavior
Title Criminal Behavior PDF eBook
Author Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Publisher SAGE
Pages 625
Release 2008-03-13
Genre Law
ISBN 1412904870

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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.

Copycat

Copycat
Title Copycat PDF eBook
Author Hannah Jayne
Publisher Sourcebooks, Inc.
Pages 248
Release 2018-07-03
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 1492647403

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From the author of The Escape, Twisted, and Truly, Madly, Deadly comes a chilling new thriller that asks: what happens if your real life became stranger and deadlier than fiction? Everyone is dying to read the latest book in the popular Gap Lake mystery series, and Addison is no exception. As the novels biggest fan, she's thrilled when the infamously reclusive author, R.J. Rosen, contacts her, giving her inside information others would kill for. Addison's always dreamed of what it would be like if the books were real...But then she finds the most popular girl in school dead. Murdered. And realizes that life imitating fiction is more dangerous that she could have imagined. As other terrifying events from the books start happening around her, Addison has to figure out how to write her own ending—and survive the story.

Media and Suicide

Media and Suicide
Title Media and Suicide PDF eBook
Author Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Publisher Routledge
Pages 363
Release 2017-07-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1351295225

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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.

Echo the Copycat

Echo the Copycat
Title Echo the Copycat PDF eBook
Author Joan Holub
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 272
Release 2016-04-26
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1481450018

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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.

Urban Nightmares

Urban Nightmares
Title Urban Nightmares PDF eBook
Author Steve Macek
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 404
Release 2006
Genre
ISBN 9781452908694

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Ruby the Copycat

Ruby the Copycat
Title Ruby the Copycat PDF eBook
Author Peggy Rathmann
Publisher Scholastic Inc.
Pages 36
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0545337577

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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.