Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 Feb;36(3-4):1092-1118. doi: 10.1177/0886260517739286. Epub 2017 Nov 8.
The mass murderer is known by a variety of names in both public and academic spheres, from the family annihilator to the active shooter, from the workplace avenger to the rampage school shooter. Although most researchers acknowledge that the phenomenon is heterogeneous, mass killing has defied classification, and currently no consensus typology exists. Most previous efforts at developing a classification scheme have focused on sorting these multicides into three broad groups, namely, family, felony, and public mass killings, exclusively relying on qualitative methods and case-study analysis to do so. The present study employs a multivariate approach to examine differences among types in victim, offender, and incident characteristics on the population of all mass murders in the United States from 2006 to 2016.
在公共和学术领域，这名大规模杀人犯有多种称呼，从“家庭毁灭者”到“活跃枪手”，从“工作场所复仇者”到“校园滥杀凶手”。尽管大多数研究人员承认这种现象具有异质性，但大规模杀戮行为却难以分类，目前尚无共识的分类法。之前大多数制定分类方案的努力都集中在将这些大规模杀人案件分为三大类，即家庭、重罪和公共大规模杀人案件，仅依靠定性方法和案例研究分析来完成。本研究采用多元方法，在美国 2006 年至 2016 年期间所有大规模谋杀案件的人群中，检验不同类型在受害者、犯罪者和事件特征方面的差异。
