Disaggregating Mass Public Shootings: A Comparative Analysis of Disgruntled Employee, School, Ideologically motivated, and Rampage Shooters
| Autor: | Jeremy R. Porter, Joseph D. Johnson, Joel A. Capellan, Christine Martin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Employment Male media_common.quotation_subject Criminology Violence 01 natural sciences Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Homicide Genetics Selection (linguistics) Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine media_common Motivation Schools Mental Disorders 010401 analytical chemistry United States 0104 chemical sciences Educational Status Female Wounds Gunshot Ideology Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of forensic sciences. 64(3) |
| ISSN: | 1556-4029 |
| Popis: | This study compares the demographic, background, motivation, and pre-event and event-level behaviors across four types of mass public shooters: disgruntled employee, school, ideologically motivated, and rampage offenders. Using a database containing detailed information on 318 mass public shootings that occurred in the United States between 1966 and 2017, we find systematic differences in the characteristics, motivations, target selection, planning, and incident-level behaviors among these offenders. The results show that ideologically motivated shooters to be the most patient, and methodical, and as a result the most lethal. Conversely, disgruntled employees, who are driven by revenge, tend to have little time to plan and consequently are the least lethal shooters. These, among other differences, underscore the need for prevention strategies and policies to be tailored to specific types of offenders. Furthermore, the results also highlight commonalities across offender type, suggesting that the social and psychological pathways to violence are universal across offenders. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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