The role of television news in the construction of school violence as a "moral panic"

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 186-202

  Killingbeck, Donna ^a  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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