SOCL 3510 Lecture : SOCL 3510 Stevenson 06142016 W/ Lecture Notes
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Revenge (e. g. a deeply disgruntled individual seeks payback for a host of failure in career, school or personal life) Power (e. g. a pseudo commando style massacre perpetrated by some marginalized individual attempting to wage a personal war against society) Loyalty (e. g. a devoted husband/father kills his entire family and then himself to spare them all from a miserable existence on earth and to reunite them in the afterlife) Terror (e. g. a political dissident destroys government property, with several victims killed as collateral damage , to send a strong message to those in power) Profit (e. g. a gunman executes the customers and employees at a retail store to eliminate all witnesses to a robbery) Revenge is the most common theme mass murderers often see themselves as victims victims of injustice. Typically, well planned mass murder rarely involves a sudden explosion of rage. To the contrary, mass killers typically plan their assaults for days, weeks or months.
