Citation

Knoll JL. Psychiatr. Clin. North Am. 2012; 35(4): 757-780.

Affiliation

Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA; Central New York Psychiatric Center, NY, USA. Electronic address: knollj@upstate.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psc.2012.08.001

PMID

23107562

Abstract

This article discusses common psychological and social factors in mass murders and outlines a proposed classification system to coordinate future research efforts. The final communications of two mass murderers are analyzed to demonstrate that the forensic psycholinguistic approach may assist in providing an enhanced understanding of the motives, psychopathology, and classification of mass murderers whose offenses can seem similar from a purely behavioral perspective.

Language: en