RT Article
T1 Mass Shootings and Routine Activities Theory: The Impact of Motivation, Target Suitability, and Capable Guardianship on Fatalities and Injuries
JF Victims & offenders
VO 16
IS 4
SP 565
OP 586
A1 Silva, Jason R.
A1 Greene-Colozzi, Emily Ann
A2 Greene-Colozzi, Emily Ann
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1755889429
AB 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.
K1 harm mitigation
K1 Gun violence
K1 Victims
K1 Routine Activities Theory
K1 Mass shooting
DO 10.1080/15564886.2020.1823919