Citation

Schmuhl M, Capellan JA. Violence Vict. 2020; 35(6): 885-905.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Springer Publishing)

DOI

10.1891/VV-D-18-00184

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

With nearly 97% of incidents within the past 40 years committed by men, mass public shootings are a gendered social problem. Yet, empirical research on this phenomenon largely neglects gender hierarchy and cultural factors as predictors, in favor of individual- and event-level characteristics. Despite calls from scholars to place masculinity and threats to patriarchal hegemony at the center of analyses, no empirical studies to our knowledge have examined the role of gender inequality in mass public shootings. The findings indicate that gender inequality, structural and ideological, are important predictors of mass public shootings and that future research should continue to investigate such violence from a gendered lens.

Language: en

Keywords

masculinity; feminism; gender inequality; mass public shootings