NCJ Number
252216
Journal
Homicide Studies Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Dated: 2018 Pages: 64-84
Date Published
October 2018
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This study responded to scholars' urging that research on mass murder shift from the creation of typologies to theoretically rich, data-driven comparative examinations of the phenomenon.
Abstract
This study redressed such calls in two ways. First, it analyzed a unique sample of public mass murderers with the multistage explanatory model of cumulative strain theory. Second, it used a comparison group of similarly violent offenders lone-actor terrorists to provide context to the study findings. The results demonstrate that cumulative strain theory usefully describes the trajectory toward violence by public mass murderers, more so when a concept implicit in the theory grievance is made explicit. (Publisher abstract modified)
Date Published: October 1, 2018