Could it happen here? Moral panic, school shootings, and fear of crime among college students

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Jaclyn Schildkraut
H. Jaymi Elsass
Mark C. Stafford
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[1] State University of New York at Oswego,
[2] Texas State University,undefined
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Crime, Law and Social Change | 2015年 / 63卷
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Property Crime; Moral Panic; Defense Measure; Personal Victimization; School Shooting;
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Originating in the early 1970s, the concept of moral panic has been used to describe the public’s reaction to a real or perceived threat. Moral panic has been linked to well-known social problems, including muggings, drugs, juvenile ‘delinquency, gangs, and terrorism. More recently, researchers have examined school shootings in this context. Notably absent, however, is a quantitative application of Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s (1994a, 1994b) attributional model of moral panic. The present study examines the five key attributes of moral panic—concern, hostility, consensus, disproportionality, and volatility – as they relate to school shootings and fear of crime among college students. The results indicate that respondents’ fear of crime is the best predictor of students’ subscription to moral panic. Directions for future research, as well as limitations of the present study, also are discussed.
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