RT Article
T1 Extremist Violence From the Fatherland to the Homeland: A Comparison of Far-Right Homicide in Germany and the United States
JF International criminal justice review
VO 27
IS 2
SP 85
OP 107
A1 Parkin, William S.
A2 Gruenewald, Jeff
A2 Jandro, Elisabeth
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1750952742
AB The creation of open-source terrorist and extremist crime databases has led to a more complete understanding of violence committed by members of the extreme far-right movement in the United States. Yet, important questions remain about how serious forms of extremist violence in the United States compare with far-right violence in other nations, which are also facing this type of threat to homeland security. The current study draws from structured action theory of extremist violence and extends an open-source methodology for the purposes of making cross-national comparisons of incident-, offender-, and victim-level characteristics of extreme far-right homicide in the United States and Germany. Despite some similarities, such as in offender race, legal outcomes, and places where homicides occurred, we find several key differences in the nature of extreme far-right homicide across these two countries. In particular, we find differences in geographic and temporal patterns as well as offender and victim demographic and background characteristics. We conclude our study by considering how the unique social, political, and economic contexts of the United States and Germany over the last 25 years serve to shape our findings.
K1 Extremism
K1 Far-right
K1 Homicide
K1 structured action theory
K1 Germany
DO 10.1177/1057567716679233