TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Mass shootings and routine activities theory: the impact of motivation, target suitability, and capable guardianship on fatalities and injuries
JO  - Victims and offenders
A1  - Silva, Jason R.
A1  - Greene-Colozzi, Emily Ann
SP  - 565
EP  - 586
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
N2  - This study uses the routine activities framework to identify motivation, target, and guardian characteristics influencing the severity of mass shooting fatalities and injuries. Significant findings indicate media-driven motivations, particularly fame-seeking perpetrators, produced more casualties. Open-spaces and schools provided more suitable targets, with open-spaces incurring more fatalities and schools incurring more injuries. Guardianship variables indicated perpetrators with a history of mental illness, as well as incidents involving rifles, more than one gun, and ending in the perpetrator's death, all resulted in higher rates of victimization. A discussion of findings highlights targeted policy and security strategies aimed at reducing the victim-counts attributed to mass shooting attacks.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1556-4886
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2020.1823919
ID  - ref1
ER  -