“Don’t name them” – Criminologist asks journalists to help stop mass shootings

It’s too familiar in America: Breaking news, another mass shooting, old pictures of the suspects, their names splashed across cable news. Instant celebrities. In an article this year for the journal American Behavioral Scientist, Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama, and a colleague argue that journalists should not report the names or picture the faces of mass shooting suspects. Journalists should, however, continue to report every other detail so the public gains a better understanding about these tragedies.
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