Friday, 15 November 2013

Violence gone viral: new study plots how crime spreads like a disease

Violence gone viral: new study plots how crime spreads like a disease
Nov 15th 2013, 16:59, by Alexander Thompson

When gun violence makes the news, it's often described as an epidemic, implying that the violence is out of control on a massive scale, akin to a rampant disease. The term is used largely as a buzzword — but new research out of Yale University suggests that there's more than just a semantic connection between gun violence and the behavior of diseases.

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