@article{ref1,
title="Shared struggles? Cumulative strain theory and public mass murderers from 1990 to 2014",
journal="Homicide studies",
year="2019",
author="Silver, James and Horgan, John and Gill, Paul",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="64-84",
abstract="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. We seek to redress such calls in two ways. First, we analyze a unique sample of public mass murderers through the multistage explanatory model of cumulative strain theory. Second, we use a comparison group of similarly violent offenders--lone actor terrorists--to provide context to our 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 theory--grievance--is made explicit.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1088-7679",
doi="10.1177/1088767918802881",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767918802881"
}