Theorizing Active Shooters

• In Event: 4155 - Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance Refereed Roundtables (1 hour)
  In Refereed Roundtable 60min: 6. Guns and Mass Shootings

Abstract

This paper develops and applies a comprehensive theoretical synthesis based on Routine Activities Theory to help explain why U.S. General homicide rates have recently been decreasing, while Active Shooter rates have been increasing. This is an important theoretical contribution since there are no works that have applied a theoretical synthesis to historical General homicide rates, let alone applied one to explain Active Shooters.

Authors

• Robert Rivera, iiisolutions.tech

• E.J. LeBlanc, iiisolutions.tech

• Richard B. Duque, Utica College