Citation

Barton L. Violence Gend. 2014; 1(4): 157-158.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Mary Ann Liebert Publishers)

DOI

10.1089/vio.2014.0033

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Professionals focused on threat assessment find that the nature of our work is fundamentally changing. Violence in the West has become increasingly more grotesque, unquestionably influenced by unprecedented media attention following the torture and beheading of British aid worker David Haines by the ISIS members in fall of 2014. The body of emperical research on the causation of violence includes many references to the copycat in social, school, and workplace settings over many decades. Documentation is clear that several school shootings, for example, analyze the tactics employed by other killers before they engage in rampages....

Language: en