Copycat effect

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The copycat effect refers to the tendency of sensational publicity about violent murders or suicides to result in more of the same through imitation. It is also the name of a book on the subject by Loren Coleman.

Newspapers sometimes avoid glorifying vandalism and other petty crimes because of the copycat effect.


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  • Copycat Effect (Article that discusses how sensational coverage of violent events tends to provoke similar events).
  • The Copycat Effect (New York: Paraview Pocket-Simon and Schuster, 2004) [1]
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