TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Shared struggles? Cumulative strain theory and public mass murderers from 1990 to 2014
JO  - Homicide studies
A1  - Silver, James
A1  - Horgan, John
A1  - Gill, Paul
SP  - 64
EP  - 84
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1088-7679
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767918802881
ID  - ref1
ER  -