Mass shootings
Subtitle: media, myths, and realities
By: Jaclyn Schildkraut and H. Jaymi Elsass
Contributors: Elsass, H. Jaymi
Series: Crime, media, and popular culture
Publisher: Praeger; Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781440836527; 9781440836534
Subjects: Violent crimes; Violence in mass media; Firearms; Murder in mass media; Mass murder; Firearms and crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Claims making and agenda setting: how myths become realities; title: What is a "mass shooting"?; title: A history of public mass shootings; title: Mass shootings by the numbers; title: The "usual suspects" as causal factors; title: Mass shootings around the globe; title: Preventing mass shootings; title: Mass shootings in a mediated society; title: Mass shootings today; title: and beyond.