TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Expressions and projections of evil in mass violence
JO  - Deviant behavior
A1  - Nurmi, Johanna
A1  - Oksanen, Atte
SP  - 859
EP  - 874
VL  - 34
IS  - 11
N2  - This article examines two recent school shooting cases in Finland, and the use of the concept of evil as a tool to discern the violence and cruelty of the incidents. The analysis is based on qualitative, focused interviews with local residents. Participants used the notion of evil to describe and understand school shootings and their perpetrators. Evil was mostly associated with the act of violence and with the perpetrators. Processing the experience of evil included the projection and externalization of evil. This process was associated with the fear of being labeled and reluctance to work through the traumatic experiences.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0163-9625
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2013.766545
ID  - ref1
ER  -