Copycat Crimes
Why this level of violence continues to happen on college campuses, in opposite to other places is obvious. This type of shooting creates media frenzy and as I stated earlier media notoriety. The considerable media exposure creates a media blitz for those who want to make a statement by murdering their fellow students. This is clearly a copycat crime and unfortunately, some sicko may want to up the body count to beat the record. According to Surette, (2015) “Waves of fads and fashion have established the fact that people lift behavior models from the media, and this connection has been extrapolated to include the mimicking of media-portrayed criminal acts. Public interest in relation of mass media to copycat crime emerged with the entertainment media of the late nineteenth century”(p. 82).
Besides, from the media, it appears that the Internet has co-signed in the role of spreading the news about such violence as hate and gun crimes. I find it to be quite odd in America’s history that people not just inside the US, but others abroad can learn how to make a bomb, communicate effectively, …show more content…
As the popularity and acceptance of media violence soars, so will violent acts amongst our younger generations. Even though there is no irrefutable evidence that ties the notion of violent activity progressively increases due to media violence increase, there is still a certainty that violence can be easily to accessible than years passed. For that reason, some perhaps argue that children are obtaining ideas on how to solve their problems by violent acts that come to be severe. Many argue in contradiction of media violence that it only encourages violent acts of behavior in children; yet it is to fault for furtherance of the severe campus shootings that have taken place here in the US, and there are many ways we can demonstrate to prevent violence as the ultimate conflict
Why this level of violence continues to happen on college campuses, in opposite to other places is obvious. This type of shooting creates media frenzy and as I stated earlier media notoriety. The considerable media exposure creates a media blitz for those who want to make a statement by murdering their fellow students. This is clearly a copycat crime and unfortunately, some sicko may want to up the body count to beat the record. According to Surette, (2015) “Waves of fads and fashion have established the fact that people lift behavior models from the media, and this connection has been extrapolated to include the mimicking of media-portrayed criminal acts. Public interest in relation of mass media to copycat crime emerged with the entertainment media of the late nineteenth century”(p. 82).
Besides, from the media, it appears that the Internet has co-signed in the role of spreading the news about such violence as hate and gun crimes. I find it to be quite odd in America’s history that people not just inside the US, but others abroad can learn how to make a bomb, communicate effectively, …show more content…
As the popularity and acceptance of media violence soars, so will violent acts amongst our younger generations. Even though there is no irrefutable evidence that ties the notion of violent activity progressively increases due to media violence increase, there is still a certainty that violence can be easily to accessible than years passed. For that reason, some perhaps argue that children are obtaining ideas on how to solve their problems by violent acts that come to be severe. Many argue in contradiction of media violence that it only encourages violent acts of behavior in children; yet it is to fault for furtherance of the severe campus shootings that have taken place here in the US, and there are many ways we can demonstrate to prevent violence as the ultimate conflict