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  • Mass Homicide: The Civil Massacre

    Author(s)
    Cantor, Christopher
    Mullen, Paul
    Alpers, Phillip
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Cantor, Christopher H.
    Year published
    2000
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    Abstract
    Seven cases of mass homicide in Australia, New Zealand, and Britain between 1987 and 1996 are presented. These cases add to the world literature on these rare crimes and balance previous, mostly North American reports. These acts were committed by socially unsuccessful, self-absorbed, and resentful individuals. Lengthy fantasy comprising identification, modeling, and rehearsal preceded the incidents, even where the final acts had impulsive elements. Most had a long-standing fascination with firearms fueling their fantasies and providing the means for mass killing. Their targets were mostly unprotected strangers. Overt suicidal ...
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    Seven cases of mass homicide in Australia, New Zealand, and Britain between 1987 and 1996 are presented. These cases add to the world literature on these rare crimes and balance previous, mostly North American reports. These acts were committed by socially unsuccessful, self-absorbed, and resentful individuals. Lengthy fantasy comprising identification, modeling, and rehearsal preceded the incidents, even where the final acts had impulsive elements. Most had a long-standing fascination with firearms fueling their fantasies and providing the means for mass killing. Their targets were mostly unprotected strangers. Overt suicidal intent or a preparedness to die while committing the homicides was invariable. Ethological theories of status acquisition may provide a useful understanding of mass homicide.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
    Volume
    28
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://jaapl.org/content/28/1/55
    Subject
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/3045
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