What Effect does Ideological Extremism have on Mass Shootings? An Assessment of Motivational Inconsistencies, Risk Profiles, and Attack Behaviors

Much like other violent extremists, some mass shooters embrace inconsistent, mixed, or customized beliefs and attack for a combination of personal and ideological reasons. This makes it difficult to understand what effects ideology has on their behavior. To obtain empirical answers, we studied (1) t...

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Authors: Lankford, Adam 1979- (Author) ; Silva, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2025, Volume: 37, Issue: 6, Pages: 749-768
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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