Talk:Copycat crime

School shootings and 'going postal' mass killings

The most obvious candidates for this article are these mass killings. Plenty of evidence of imitation in them, and well covered in Loren Cunningham's 'The Copycat Effect' and Robert Cialdini's 'Influence: Science and Practice'. Perhaps we could add the evidence for this category of crime being imitative? ChrisPer (talk) 05:28, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Favoring Villainous Characters

Choosing a Villain as a favorite character is also a possible cause for copycat crimes. The two 12-year-old girls from the Slender man Stabbing on May 31,2014, were said to have been influenced by a popular character known as Slender Man, from the series, "Creepypasta" to commit the crimes. They grew a love for this character, believing that 'Slender Man' would accept them as 'proxies' and protect them if they gave him a sacrifice. It's possible these girls have read 'Fanfictions' that added sympathetic characteristics to the murderous characters of the Creepypasta series.

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