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Movies also add their fair share to the problem of violence in society. "Researchers have established that copycat events are not an anomaly. Statistically speaking, they are rare, but predictable, occurrences. Television shows, novels, but especially movies-all can trigger copycat violence" (Lamson 72)...
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"Researchers have established that copycat events are not an anomaly. Statistically speaking, they are rare, but predictable, occurrences. Television shows, novels, but especially movies-all can trigger copycat violence" (Lamson 72). As recently as November of 1995, New York City officials believed that the burning of a tollbooth clerk was a result of copycat violence, resulting from a similar scene in the movie Money Train...
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