School shootings, the media, and public fear
Ingredientsfor a moral panic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23324319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald G Burns (0000-0002-3777-3854, Texas Christian University), Ronald Burns, Charles Crawford (0000-0002-9009-5271, Western Michigan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-168 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Crime Law and Social Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-4994 • E-ISSN: 1573-0751 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1023/a:1008338323953 |
| OpenAlex | W2141253699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 14 |
Anxiety · Computer security · Criminology · Moral panic · Panic · Political science · Punitive damages · SAFER · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Law · Psychology
Legacy of Violence
Towards ‘New Emotional Movements’? A Comparative Exploration into a Specific Movement Type
The New American School
Strategy and Disproportionality in Contemporary Conflicts
Public information officers
Race, Poverty, and Exclusionary School Security
How did the pandemic lockdown affect the media’s outlook on gaming? A case study of Türkiye as an emerging market
Mass shootings, fatality thresholds and defining by numbers
Policing Black Youth
Finishing the story
The Loughan House Controversy
Attributions as Anchors
Punishing Rampage
A Systematic Literature Review of Educational Leadership and U.S. School Shootings
Media Coverage of School Shootings
Conceptual Confusion
Exogenous events and media reporting of mass shootings
A Hybrid Model of Moral Panics
Beyond Fear
Research in School Shootings
Bad Sports
Representing school arson in Kenya
Neo-Nazis and moral panic
And the evolution of newspaper representations of incarcerated Muslims
Representations of Young People Associated With Crime in El Salvador's Written Press
Laughing at death
Missing the moral
Placing the criminalization of school discipline in economic context
Violent computer games in the German press
Advancing responses to mass shootings using a routine activity approach
Fear and loathing in the news
Decoding 'encoding
Towards a Bourdieusian frame of moral panic analysis
Coping with Tragedy, Reacting to an Event
Moral panic neutralization project
Protecting the Gift”
Information-seeking in the Wake of Tragedy
Responding to violence with guns
Exploring school rampage shootings
Crisis events and the inter-scalar politics of humor
La panique morale entourant les jeux vidéo violents
Preparing for prison
Conceptualizing Justice
Socioeconomic factors and mass shootings in the United States
Societal Reactions to Deviance
A Scoping Review of the Literature on School Shooting From 1990 to 2023
Perceptions of Armed School Police
Grandpa Joe’s hunting rifle
Kill the Cat Killers
The media’s coverage of mass public shootings in America
YouTube gunmen? Mapping participatory media discourse on school shooting videos
Shadowcasting tourism knowledge through media
President Trump’s transgender moral panic
The new disciplinology
Crime Control Strategies in School
Moral Panics as Enacted Melodramas
Chiropractors as Folk Devils
How an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic Led to the U.S. War on Iraq
Mobilize for Our Lives? School Shootings and Democratic Accountability in U.S. Elections
National and International Mass Shootings
Moral Panic, Fear of Crime, and School Shootings
Reacting to Invasive Species
Desired Panic
Googling in Fear
Sharenting in Digital Society
Mass-mediated discourse on emotion, and the feeling rules it conveys
Enemies Everywhere
It’s Better to Overreact
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community
Quelling moral panics? The case of physician aid in dying in California
Zero Tolerance, School Shootings, and the Post-Brown Quest for Equity in Discipline Policy
In Search of a Safe School
Symbolic crusade
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Pricing the Priceless Child
A comparative analysis of crime coverage in newspapers in the United States and other countries from 1960–1989
Antipornography campaigns
Crime and the American Press
Crime News and the Public
Toward a Unified Model for Social Problems Theory
Moral Panics
Social Problems as Collective Behavior
The Mass Media and the Social Construction of the Missing Children Problem
The Diffusion of Sexual Psychopath Laws
Another look at moral panics
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,88 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |