Which Mass Shooters Become "Saints"? Canonization And Hero Worship Among Online Extreme Right Communities

• In Event: Right-wing Terrorism and Racist Hate Groups- Political Violence in the name of Religion

Brief Overview

Introducing a novel dataset of every attempted or successful mass-casualty attack in OECD countries over the past 20 years, this paper develops a measure of why and how much online extreme right communities "canonize" attackers.

Author

• Alex Bradley Newhouse, University of Colorado Boulder