CC202 Lecture 1: Media, Culture, and Killing
Document Summary
Violent behaviours have become commonplace within us schools and colleges. Number of violent episodes have decreased since early 1990s: however it continues to be usual in the us. Between 1992 2001, 35 incidents of lethal violence occurred where students showed up to school/school sponsored event and fired at schoolmates/teachers. 445 school shootings not resulting in death occurred in us between 2000 2010. 1990 2008 14 fatal shootings on us college campuses. Since 1999, serious cases of school shootings have shifted from the inner city to the suburbs: accompanied by change in character of school shootings. From vengeance against individual students in the inner city to indiscriminate retribution in the suburbs. Violent media often blamed for violence in teens. The fact is that violent movies and video games have been converted into objects of fear. However, convergence of factors contribute to occurrence of rampage school shootings: prevailing culture of narcissism.
