1. The Media and Our Violent Society
The Centers for Disease Control realizes the impact visual images and "news" has on potential behavior: their policy to suppress "copycat" suicides is to refrain from showing victims of suicides, provide no details about the technical aspects of the method chosen, and in no way to glorify suicide. ... Discussion of Theory The behaviors chosen and exhibited by individuals are the result of personal judgments they make based on their subjective perception of what constitutes appropriate responses and actions within that environment. ...
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