Gun violence and media effects: Challenges for science and public policy

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 322-324

  Elson, Malte ^a   Ferguson, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MORALITY; MULTIMEDIA; PANIC; POLICY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VIOLENCE;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; PUBLIC POLICY; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84887308635     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.128652     Document Type: Review

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