NCJ Number
254041
Journal
Homicide Studies Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Dated: 2019 Pages: 64-84
Date Published
2019
Length
21 pages
Annotation
Since scholars have urged a shift in research on mass murder from the creation of typologies to theoretically rich, data-driven comparative examinations of the phenomenon, this study aimed to make this change in two steps.
Abstract
First, it analyzed a unique sample of public mass murderers through the multistage explanatory model of cumulative strain theory. Second, it used a comparison group of similarly violent offenderslone actor terroriststo provide context to the findings. The results demonstrate that cumulative strain theory usefully describes the trajectory toward violence of public mass murderers, more so when a concept implicit in the theorygrievanceis made explicit. (publisher abstract modified)
Date Published: January 1, 2019
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