By Grant Duwe
This ebook explores those questions by means of analyzing 909 mass murders that happened within the usa among 1900 and 1999. by means of a ways the most important research at the subject thus far, it starts with a glance on the styles and occurrence of mass murders through offering charges from 1900–1999 and through describing the features of mass killers. putting the phenomenon in the broader social, political, and monetary context of the 20 th century, the paintings examines the criteria that experience motivated tendencies within the occurrence of mass homicide. It additionally discusses greater than a hundred case experiences inside 3 designated sessions of mass homicide task (1900–1939, 1940–1965, and 1966–1999) to demonstrate extra essentially the factors of mass murderers and the conditions surrounding their crimes. the ultimate chapters look at media insurance and the function it has performed within the social building of mass murder.
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