TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Gendered massacres: examining the effects of cultural and structural gender inequality on the incidence of mass public shootings JO - Violence and victims A1 - Schmuhl, Margaret A1 - Capellan, Joel A. SP - 885 EP - 905 VL - 35 IS - 6 N2 - 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
LA - en SN - 0886-6708 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/VV-D-18-00184 ID - ref1 ER -