Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242025 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Contemporary Economic Policy [ISSN:] 1465-7287 [Volume:] 39 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [Place:] Boston, USA [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 719-736
Publisher: 
Wiley Periodicals, Inc., Boston, USA
Abstract: 
School shootings are often motivated by the perpetrators' desire for media attention and notoriety. As school shootings receive intense regional and national media coverage, a high likelihood for copycat attacks can be expected. We investigate whether a copycat effect can be detected in US state-level school shooting data from 1990 to 2017. We do so by estimating spatio-temporal panel count models and control for socio-economic characteristics, as well as state and Federal gun control laws. Positive spatial and temporal dependence indicate that the risk for additional school shootings in the same and neighboring states increases after the initial attack.
Subjects: 
criminology
gun control
linear feedback model
state‐level
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Article
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