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Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern EuropeTheorizing Mass Shootings

Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe: Theorizing Mass Shootings [Mass shootings constitute an extremely rare form of violence and because of their rarity, they are difficult to not only generalize on, but to study and apply theoretical frameworks to. This chapter identifies the difficulties associated with studying rare events, and engages with previous literature in which recommendations were made on how to deal with the rarity aspect of mass shootings. The chapter then describes the book’s chosen theoretical approach—Cumulative Strain Theory (CST). It justifies why (CST) is adopted in the book over other frameworks and relates earlier presented datadata to both individual and societal level variables that are captured in the approach as either potentially causal factors that underpin mass shootings or as background antecedent conditions. The chapter concludes by demonstrating that even in light of CST being a framework that originated from the study of American offenders, its applicability to CEE contexts is potentially fruitful because offenders across these contexts.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern EuropeTheorizing Mass Shootings

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-89372-9
Pages
65 –84
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-89373-6_4
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Abstract

[Mass shootings constitute an extremely rare form of violence and because of their rarity, they are difficult to not only generalize on, but to study and apply theoretical frameworks to. This chapter identifies the difficulties associated with studying rare events, and engages with previous literature in which recommendations were made on how to deal with the rarity aspect of mass shootings. The chapter then describes the book’s chosen theoretical approach—Cumulative Strain Theory (CST). It justifies why (CST) is adopted in the book over other frameworks and relates earlier presented datadata to both individual and societal level variables that are captured in the approach as either potentially causal factors that underpin mass shootings or as background antecedent conditions. The chapter concludes by demonstrating that even in light of CST being a framework that originated from the study of American offenders, its applicability to CEE contexts is potentially fruitful because offenders across these contexts.]

Published: Nov 18, 2021

Keywords: Theory building; Case studies; Rare events; Cumulative Strain Theory; Comparative methods

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