Mass Murder

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the social phenomenon of multiple homicide and mass public shootings. It is designed to provide an advanced understanding of the scholarship in the field, including, but not limited to, the demographic and background characteristics of offenders and the causes, historical trends and spatial distributions of these crimes. The course will also address the methodological challenges to the empirical investigation of mass murder, such as how different definitions and data collection strategies may impact the validity of findings.