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Article: EXPLAINING MASS MURDER AT ROUTINE ACTIVITIES.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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EXPLAINING MASS MURDER AT ROUTINE ACTIVITIES. Thomas A. Petee, Janice Clifford Wittekind and Greg S. Weaver, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849.
Over the past several years, mass murder incidents have increasingly peaked the interest of criminologists. Much of the focus centered contextual factors, the different types of mass murder and the outcome of these events. Given these emphases, a gap in the research exists in explaining theoretically the distribution of mass murder ...