Possible Paradigm Shift Research Paper Ideas

I think I am going to write and research the paradigm shift regarding mental illness and mass shootings. When Professor Spielvogel mentioned mental illness during Tuesday’s class, it reminded me of this great piece that John Oliver did the other night on his HBO show about mental illness and I would love to expand on his research. With the recent shootings and murders that have hit the news, I think that there are a lot of people who are searching for a scapegoat and that tends to be mental illness. There is a really interesting paper by two Vanderbilt University researchers who examine how people tend to blame shootings on people with mental illness and how that is the wrong thing to pin the blame on. By looking at people like Sandy Hook’s Adam Lanza, Aurora’s James Holmes, Ft. Hood’s Nidal Hasan, and Charleston’s Dylan Roof, I will discuss how people once treated and currently treat mental illness as it pertains to mass shootings.

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3 thoughts on “Possible Paradigm Shift Research Paper Ideas

  1. I like your idea very much; maybe you can dig deeper about the cause of mental illness and relate to other social issues, such as unemployment or technology development.

  2. This is an issue that has been bothering and interesting me for a long time. It seems like today’s society blames a lot of things on mental illness. It would be interesting to compare the views of mental illness and shootings from the early/mid 20th century to today.

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