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Notes

1. All quotes from Dave Grossman's speech are transcriptions from his videotape "Teaching Kids To Kill."

2. Rhodes (1999), p. 216.

3. Gadow and Sprafkin (1989), p. 401, p. 402.

4. Centerwall (!989), p. 15.

5. Centerwall (1992), p. 3061.

6. Zimring and Hawkins (1997), p. 243.

7. Twitchell (1989), p. 143.

8. Twitchell (1989), p. 152.

9. Twitchell (1989), p. 153, p. 154.

10. HR 83, p. 46.

11. Quoted in Fowles (1999), p. 126.

12. Quoted in Fowles (1999), p. 35.

13. Eron (1995), p. 84.

14. Fowles (1999), p. 35.

15. Eron (1995), p. 85.

16. Cater and Strickland (1975), p. 47.

17. Cater and Strickland (1975), p. 21.

18. Fowles (1999), pp. 36-37.

19. Cf. Lefkowitz et al. (1972), p. 55, Table 8, item 11.

20. Huesmann 13 March 2000 email, p. 11.

21 My emphasis

22. Cf. S. 2323, p. 95.

23. Huesmann and Moise (1996), p. 2.

24. Huesmann et al. (1984), p. 1133.

25. Huesmann and Miller (1994), p. 169.

26. Gauntlett (1995), p. 107, citing Howard Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York: The Free Press, 1963.

27. Fowles (1997), p. 30. (Feshbach quoted in Fowles, op. cit.)

28. Quoted in Fowles (1992), p. 142.

29. Fowles (1997), p. 48.

30. Messner (1986), p. 218.

31. Messner (1986), pp. 223-224.

32. Steve Messner 2/24/00 email, pp. 2-3.

33. Messner, op. cit., p. 3.

34. Wiebe (1969).

35. Fowles (1992), p. 54.

36. Fowles (1992), p. 87.

37. Elias (1986), p. 89

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