Mass murder in the new millennium : a thesis restructuring mass murder typologies.

Abstract

The rise of mass murder in the new millennium necessitated this study. This rise brought about several new areas that needed researched, (sic) along with a restructuring of the extant mass murder typologies. These new typologies are included in this study and then compared to the extant typologies. The new millennium brought about an increase in mass murders. The increase did not happen because there are more people. The size of the general population has not increased the need for an individual to take multiple lives in order to fit into society. The new millennium brought out some people's fascination with death, for example, television shows such as American Horror Story on Fox Network. The latest compact disk (sic) song entries about sex and murder, which ask can you outrun my bullet or gun. The Motion Picture Industry with all of the Zombie Motion Pictures and the mass murder complex was born. The extant typologies for mass murder have failed to cover all of the reasons now used by individuals to commit this crime. Mass murder is not new, but the ideas behind the thinking of the baby boomers and generation x have accelerated the need to be noticed by society and the 'Look at me and see what I did' syndrome. The new typologies delineated within this study include the different triggering causes for women, suicide bombers, police killers, school shootings, and military personnel who have risen to the forefront during the new millennium. This study was needed so that new forms of mass murder could be described and added to make a more inclusive typology of mass murder.