When severe violence becomes a script: a vulnerability-script integration model of media exposure and the form of psychosis-associated maternal filicide
When a publicized act of severe violence is followed by one that resembles it, the resemblance is often read as contagion. This paper argues that resemblance is weak evidence of influence and asks a narrower question: under what conditions can exposure to a publicized crime narrative shape the form of subsequent violence in a person whose antecedent state has already made such violence…
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