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Violent children and the media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Susan Bailey*
Affiliation:
Mental Health Services, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 3BL
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Few subjects attract the attention of the public and the media more than violent acts committed by children and adolescents. All too frequently, politicians, policy-makers, practitioners, the public and media become caught up in destructive cycles of blame, engendering within society itself a sense of helplessness and powerlessness for and about violent young people.

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Psychiatry and the Media
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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