Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
This exploratory study examines if causal mechanisms highlighted by criminology theories work in the same way to explain both ideologically motivated violence (i.e., terrorism) and regular (non-political) homicides. We study if macro-level hypotheses drawn from deprivation, backlash, and social disorganization frameworks are associated with the likelihood that a far-right extremist who committed an ideologically motivated homicide inside the contiguous US resides in a particular county. To aid in the assessment of whether criminology theories speak to both terrorism and regular violence we also apply these hypotheses to far-right homicide and regular homicide incident location and compare the results.
Comments
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article originally published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology, available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-014-9239-0