Cultural and Institutional Adaptation and Change in Europe: A Test of Institutional Anomie Theory Using Time Series Modelling of Homicide Data

Public Mass Shooters and Firearms: A Cross-National Study of 171 Countries

“…Public mass shooters are commonly mentally ill or suicidal but most other homicide offenders are not (Ames, 2005;Duncan, 1995;Duwe, 2007;Fox & Levin, 1994;Langman, 2009Langman, , 2015aLankford & Hakim 2011;Lieberman, 2006;Newman & Fox, 2009;Newman et al, 2004;O'Toole, 2000;Rugala, 2003;Vossekuil et al, 2002). Public mass shooters often plan their attacks in advance but other murderers are much more likely to commit crimes of passion or escalation (Langman, 2009;Lankford, 2013;Newman et al, 2004;Vossekuil et al, 2002).…”

“…The control variables were population (World Factbook, 2014), national sex ratio (World Factbook, 2014), and percentage of the population living in urban areas (World Bank, 2014). These controls have been commonly used by scholars studying cross-national homicide in the past (Dolliver, 2014;Krahn, Hartnagel, & Gartnell, 1986;Pratt & Godsey, 2003;Pridemore, 2008). Although it may have been preferable to use measures that reflected the average values for each country from 1966 to 2012, those data were not available, so the most recent estimates for each measure were employed instead.…”

Institutional anomie and justification of morally dubious behavior and violence cross-nationally: A multilevel examination

“…Defining culture and identifying indicators of the cultural ethos of disintegrative individualism has proven particularly challenging for IAT researchers (see Bernburg, 2002; Dolliver, 2015), with some omitting the cultural dimensions of the theory from their analyses entirely (e.g. Bjerregaard & Cochran, 2008b; Cao, 2004; Maume & Lee, 2003; Pratt & Godsey, 2003).…”

“…disintegrative individualism) are said to explain why some nations—and the U.S., in particular—have disproportionately high rates of crime. The theory receives support, with institutional anomie linked, at least partially, to violent and property crime rates cross-nationally (Bjerregaard & Cochran, 2008a, 2008b; Cochran & Bjerregaard, 2012; Dolliver, 2015; Hughes, Schaible, & Gibbs, 2015; Pratt & Godsey, 2003) and subnationally across smaller geographic units (Chamlin & Cochran, 1995; Maume & Lee, 2003; Stults & Baumer, 2008).…”

Latent Trajectories of Cross-National Homicide Trends: Structural Characteristics of Underlying Groups

“…In addition, there is some indication that an aging population and declines in urbanization are associated with declining rates of homicide from the late 1980s to the 2000s (Baumer & Wolff, 2014). There are inconsistent findings concerning rising rates of imprisonment, as scholars have noted declines in both property and violent crimes attributed to rising rates of incarceration in Western Europe and the United States (Buonanno et al, 2011; Dolliver, 2015; Rosenfeld & Messner, 2009), although there have been some disparate findings across larger samples (Baumer & Wolff, 2014). Finally, in very limited samples of nations, there is some indication that increasing security measures have contributed to declines in property crime during this period (Farrell, Tseloni, Mailley, & Tilley, 2011).…”