Media and mass homicides

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 283-290

  Cantor, Christopher H ^a   Sheehan, Peter ^b   Alpers, Philip ^c   Mullen, Paul ^d  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Gun Policy Researcher   (New Zealand)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MODEL; NEW ZEALAND; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0032847932     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811119908258339     Document Type: Note

References (30)

1. Berman, A. L. (1988). Fictional depiction of suicide in television films and imitation effects. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 982-986.
2. Bollen, K. A. & Phillips, D. P. (1981). Suicidal motor vehicle fatalities in Detroit: A replication. American Journal of Sociology, 87, 404-412.
3. Bollen, K. A. & Phillips, D. P. (1982). Imitative suicides: A national study of the effects of television news stories. American Sociological Review, 47, 802-809.
4. Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (1994). Suicide - A resource book. Calgary: Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention.
5. Cantor, C. H. & Sheehan, P. W. (1996). Violence and media reports: A connection with Hungerford? Archives of Suicide Research, 2, 255-266.
6. Cullen, The Honourable Lord (1996). The public inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane primary school on 13 March 1996. Edinburgh: The Stationary Office.
7. Deitz, P. E. (1986). Mass, serial and sensational homicides. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 62, 417-491.
8. Fekete, S. & Schmidtke, A. (1996). Suicidal models-their frequency and role in suicide attempters, non-suicidal psychiatric patients and normal control cases: A comparative German-Hungarian study. Omega, 33, 233-241.
9. Gould, M. S., Wallenstein S. & Davidson, L. (1989). Suicide clusters a critical review. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 19, 17-29.
10. Gresswell, D. M. & Hollin C. R. (1992). Towards a new methodology for making sense of case material: An illustrative case involving attempted multiple murder. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2, 329-341.
11. Hallenstein, H. (1988a). Record of investigation into deaths 3436, 3438, 3440-3443, 3622/87. State Coroner Victoria.
12. Hallenstein, H. (1988b). Record of investigation into deaths 5345-5353. State Coroner Victoria.
13. Kapardis, A. (1989). They wrought mayhem: An insight into mass murder. Australia: River Seine Press.
14. Milton, R. (1994). Profile of a mass killer: Wade Frankum at Strathfield Plaza. Bondi Junction: Blackstone Press.
15. O'Brien, W. (1991). Aramoana: 22 hours of terror. New Zealand: Penguin.
16. O'Carroll, P. W. & Potter, L. B. (1994). Suicide contagion and the reporting of suicide: Recommendations from a national workshop. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, 43, 9-18.
17. Phillips, D. P. (1977). Motor vehicle fatalities increase just after publicized suicide stories. Science, 196, 1464-1465.
18. Phillips, D. P. (1978). Airplane accident fatalities increase just after newspaper stories about murder and suicide. Science, 201, 748-750.
19. Phillips, D. P. (1979). Suicide, motor vehicle fatalities, and the mass media: Evidence toward a theory of suggestion. American Journal of Sociology, 85, 1150-1174.
20. Phillips, D. P. (1983). The impact of mass media violence on U.S. homicides. American Sociological Review, 48, 560-568.
21. Phillips, D. P. (1986). Natural experiments on the effects of mass media violence on fatal aggression: Strengths and weaknesses of a new approach. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 19, 207-250.
22. Phillips, D. P., Lesyna, K. & Paight, D. J. (1992). Suicide and the media. In R. W. Masters et al. (Eds.), Assessment and prediction of suicide. New York: Guildford Press.
23. Police Complaints Authority (1990). Report of the police complaints authority on the tragedy at Aramoana. Wellington.
24. Schmidtke, A. & Hafner, H. (1988). The Werther effect after television films: New evidence for an old hypothesis. Psychological Medicine, 18, 665-676.
25. Sonneck, G., Etzersdorfer, E. & Nagel-Kuess, S. (1994). Imitative suicide on the Viennesse subway. Social Science and Medicine, 38, 453-457.
26. Stack, S. (1987). Celebrities and suicide: A taxonomy and analysis, 1948-1983. American Sociological Review, 52, 401-412.
27. Stack, S. (1989). The effect of publicized mass murders and murder-suicides on lethal violence, 1968-1980. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 24, 202-208.
28. Stack S. (1990). A reanalysis of the impact of non celebrity. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 25, 269-273.
29. Westermeyer, J. (1973). On the epidemicity of amok violence. Archives of General Psychiatry, 28, 873-876.
30. White, G. F. (1989). Media and violence: The case of professional football championship games. Aggressive Behavior, 15, 423-433.