{"id":50381,"date":"2012-08-08T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50381"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:03:02","slug":"are-we-more-violent-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/08\/08\/are-we-more-violent-than-ever-before\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Are We More Violent Than Ever Before?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/Screen-shot-2012-08-08-at-7.14.20-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50382\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/Screen-shot-2012-08-08-at-7.14.20-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Aurora theater shooting and the shooting of a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, Minneapolis CBS affiliate <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/category\/watch-listen\/wcco-tv-shows\/good-question\/\" target=\"_blank\">WCCO<\/a> asked, &#8220;Are we more violent than ever before?&#8221; They interviewed The Society Pages&#8217; own <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Uggen<\/a> about historical changes in crime. Given the way local news often covers crime and violence, this is a surprisingly nuanced segment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSMIN.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=474524;hostDomain=video.minneapolis.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=425;playerHeight=375;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7585413;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.MINN%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.minneapolis.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Aurora theater shooting and the shooting of a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, Minneapolis CBS affiliate WCCO asked, &#8220;Are we more violent than ever before?&#8221; They interviewed The Society Pages&#8217; own Chris Uggen about historical changes in crime. Given the way local news often covers crime and violence, this is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-50381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50385,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50381\/revisions\/50385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}