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The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on February 20, 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass... more
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      SociologyCriminologyPolitical SociologyEastern European Studies
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      ViolenceStressPowerCrime
Study 1: 630 spree-shooters [1936-2021] (1,650 deaths; 3,123 injuries; 194 suicides [31%]), 623 controls logistic regression differences (F= 260.44, df=10/1242, R=.82, R2 =.68, p<.01): (1) homicidal ideation; (2) planning-preparation; (3)... more
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      Machine LearningPredictionVerification and ValidationStatistical machine learning
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      ViolenceStressPowerCrime
Research Summary: In this article, I provide a qualitative analysis of ten perpetrators of mass violence, including five school shooters and five attackers in nonschool settings (a random public shooting, a familicide, and three attacks... more
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      Mass MurderSchool rampage shootingsHomegrown TerrorismPsychology of Terrorism
20 May 2021 U.S. dollar cost for assault = $33,773.52; homicide, $3,834,988.08, domestic terror, mass murder, spree-shooting, 3 dead, $11,504,964.24, pedophilia, $139,430.28. Over 85 years, domestic-terror, mass-murder, spree-shooter... more
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      Machine LearningHomicideSchool Violence PreventionCrime Prevention Policies
1. Hitler seeks to be interviewed by a relatively uneducated non-German in his final days in the Bunker 1945. Reason: he does not trust any German to pass on his Final Testament. 2. The Americans agree on the condition all questions can... more
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      Psychology of EvilThe Third ReichHolocaustWorld War II history
Stressing that the pronoun "I" picks out one and only one person in the world (i.e., me), I argue against Hunt (and other like-minded Rand commentators) that the supposed "hard case" of destructive people who do not care for their own... more
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      ReligionComparative ReligionCriminologyPolitical Sociology
This exploratory study examines the act of mass murder as an attempt by the perpetrators to lay claim to a hegemonic masculine identity that has been damaged or denied them, yet that they feel entitled to as males in American culture.... more
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      ViolenceStressPowerCrime
This article explores the trials conducted by the West-German Justice system to adjudicate the Holocaust crimes committed in the course of "Aktion Reinhardt"
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      Transitional JusticeHolocaust and Genocide StudiesResearch on PerpetratorsWar Crimes Trials
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      TerrorismViolenceStressPower
In an attempt to start rectifying a lamentable disparity in scholarship, we evince fruitful points of similarity and difference in the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Ayn Rand, paying particular attention to their views on long-term... more
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      Fiction WritingCritical TheoryAmerican LiteratureHistory
A homicide Detectives take on the inner working of a Serial Killer.
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      MurderSerial killersCriminal profilingSerial Murder
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      NationalismHolocaust StudiesUkrainian NationalismSoviet Union (History)
A l'occasion du séminaire de l'Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent intitulé Les camps nazis (textes, images, représentations), nous avons pu constater que les images de la libération des camps ont provoqué une rupture décisive dans le... more
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      Film StudiesInternational LawFilm and HistoryJews in Poland
This article examines the media coverage of the case of the “Maníaco do Parque,” the most notorious serial killer in Brazil. It aims to show how this phenomenon cannot be placed in the realms of fantasy or grotesque; on the contrary, it... more
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      SociologyCommunicationSocial SciencesViolence
Every year in Europe around 1,150 people are shot dead with firearms. These deaths occur in various contexts, including the relational and criminal spheres. The little available research into the weapons used during these fatal crimes... more
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      TerrorismInternational TerrorismHomicidePolitical Violence and Terrorism
Contagion and copycat behavior among mass killers is often discussed in the media when there are multiple attacks within a short span of time. Proximity in time, however, does not necessarily mean that one attack inspired another. This... more
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      Social ContagionMass MurderersPsychology Mass MurderersCopycat Mass Violence
This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different... more
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      HomicideMurderSchool ShootingsSerial Murder
Militaries are institutions of violence. This chapter considers the dark side of military violence: violence within the military. While many criminological studies have attended to the violence and crime of, and within, environments of... more
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      SociologyMilitary cultureHazingMilitary Masculinities
Study 1: 630 spree-shooters [1936-2021] (1,650 deaths; 3,123 injuries; 194 suicides [31%]), 623 controls logistic regression differences (F= 260.44, df=10/1242, R=.82, R2 =.68, p&lt;.01): (1) homicidal ideation; (2) planning-preparation;... more
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      European StudiesMachine LearningPredictionVerification and Validation
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      Holocaust StudiesSoviet Union (History)Nazi GermanyHolocaust and Genocide Studies
Study 1: 630 spree-shooters [1936-2021] (1,650 deaths; 3,123 injuries; 194 suicides [31%]), 623 controls logistic regression differences (F= 260.44, df=10/1242, R=.82, R2 =.68, p&lt;.01): (1) homicidal ideation; (2) planning-preparation;... more
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      European StudiesMachine LearningPredictionVerification and Validation
Study 1: 630 spree-shooters [1936-2021] (1,650 deaths; 3,123 injuries; 194 suicides [31%]), 623 controls logistic regression differences (F= 260.44, df=10/1242, R=.82, R2 =.68, p&lt;.01): (1) homicidal ideation; (2) planning-preparation;... more
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      European StudiesMachine LearningPredictionVerification and Validation
Study 1: 630 spree-shooters [1936-2021] (1,650 deaths; 3,123 injuries; 194 suicides [31%]), 623 controls logistic regression differences (F= 260.44, df=10/1242, R=.82, R2 =.68, p&lt;.01): (1) homicidal ideation; (2) planning-preparation;... more
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      European StudiesMachine LearningPredictionVerification and Validation
ABSTRACT People who kill strangers all have their own macabre reasons for their acts. There is much to learn from those who are willing to divulge their reasons, and sometimes from the acts of those who don’t. Lieutenant Nelson Andreu... more
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      MurderSerial killersCriminal profilingSerial Murder
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      ViolenceStressPowerCrime
20 May 2021 U.S. dollar cost for assault = $33,773.52; homicide, $3,834,988.08, domestic terror, mass murder, spree-shooting, 3 dead, $11,504,964.24, pedophilia, $139,430.28. Over 85 years, domestic-terror, mass-murder, spree-shooter... more
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      European StudiesMachine LearningHomicideSchool Violence Prevention
20 May 2021 U.S. dollar cost for assault = $33,773.52; homicide, $3,834,988.08, domestic terror, mass murder, spree-shooting, 3 dead, $11,504,964.24, pedophilia, $139,430.28. Over 85 years, domestic-terror, mass-murder, spree-shooter... more
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      European StudiesMachine LearningHomicideSchool Violence Prevention
Study 1: 630 spree-shooters [1936-2021] (1,650 deaths; 3,123 injuries; 194 suicides [31%]), 623 controls logistic regression differences (F= 260.44, df=10/1242, R=.82, R2 =.68, p&lt;.01): (1) homicidal ideation; (2) planning-preparation;... more
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      European StudiesMachine LearningPredictionVerification and Validation
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      TerrorismViolenceStressPower
This is a modified version of a presentation made to the British Association of American Studies on Saturday, 15 November 2014 comparing the circumstances of Robert Charles, Mark Essex and Christopher Dorner.
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      CriminologyRacismAfrican American HistoryAfrican American Studies