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...Steven Stack, professor of psychiatry and criminal justice at Wayne State University, offers another explanation: the copycat effect. The copycat theory was first conceived by a criminologist in 1912, after the London newspapers' wall-to-wall coverage of the brutal crimes of Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s led to a wave of copycat rapes and murders throughout England. Since then, there has been much research into copycat events - mostly copycat suicides, which appear to be most common - but, taken together, the findings are inconclusive...
...review of 105 previously published studies, Stack found that about 40% of the studies suggested an association between media coverage of suicide, particularly celebrity suicide, and suicide rates in the general public. He also found a dose-response effect: The more coverage of a suicide, the greater the number of copycat deaths. (See pictures of an exhibit of Columbine evidence...
...extremely disciplined at the plate, swinging at pitches we shouldn’t have.”The Crimson struck out 12 times on the day, drawing only four walks, and failed to set up meaningful scoring opportunities. Other than RBI singles from senior right fielder Tom Stack-Babich in each game, the offense did little to help its pitchers.“You can’t blame the pitchers because the hitters haven’t produced,” Douglas said. “If we had our usual production that we have been having, we could...
...freshman year and that put me off English.” After working for the public television documentary program, “NOW with Bill Moyers,” Dovey moved back to South Africa. Dovey found that the resources in Cape Town, however, couldn’t stack up to Harvard’s well-stocked VES department. Out of what she calls “desperation” for creative outlet, Dovey enrolled in a Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Cape Town, where she wrote “Blood Kin?...
...They don’t like us, we don’t like them.”Awaiting the Harvard players will be a hostile Rhode Island crowd.“It’s always pretty intense when we go down there,” senior Tom Stack-Babich said. “Their coach is fiery and they feed off that. It’s always a pretty heated battle.”But the tough atmosphere does not scare Walsh or his team.“I worry about the players on the field...