Eric Madfis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 262191 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eric Madfis |
| NOMBRES | Eric |
| APELLIDO | Madfis |
| FIRMA | MADFIS E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Washington Tacoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7475-3465 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Mass shootings and masculinities
This paper illustrates the role of gender throughout all five stages of the cumulative strain theory of mass shootings. Scholarship on masculinities helps explain the unusually wide gender disparity among mass shooters. Mass shooters who are boys and men experience stressors as emasculating rejections which accumulate over time. Boys and men are more likely than girls and women to be socially isolated and/or have anti-social connections that exac…
All-American Massacre
Whitewashing Criminology
Moral Panic, Fear of Crime, and School Shootings
The concept of moral panic has been used to describe how society reacts to different threats, either real or perceived. Although most studies in this area rely on qualitative, historical data, recent efforts have employed quantitative applications of an attributional model to understand attitudes consistent with different characteristics of moral panic. The present study utilizes this model along with survey data from college students across the …
Exploring Subcultural Trajectories
This study analyzes the life histories and subcultural trajectories of people who have at one time but no longer identify as racist skinheads. We find that, on the one hand, people are far more malleable with their subcultural identities than is commonly understood by law enforcement and researchers concerned with criminal desistance, and on the other hand, this does not necessitate a total abdication of stable subcultural identities and values a…
Media Coverage of Mass Killers
In recent years, major media organizations have wondered if their coverage of mass shooters actually increases the risk of future attacks, and have asked how their reporting could be improved. In response, 149 experts have called for media to stop publishing the names and photos of mass killers (except during ongoing searches for escaped suspects), but continue reporting the other details of these crimes as needed. Here, we review some of the mos…
Don't Name Them, Don't Show Them, But Report Everything Else
Prior research has shown that many mass shooters have explicitly admitted they want fame and have directly reached out to media organizations to get it. These fame-seeking offenders are particularly dangerous because they kill and wound significantly more victims than other active shooters, they often compete for attention by attempting to maximize victim fatalities, and they can inspire contagion and copycat effects. However, if the media change…
It’s Better to Overreact
Postmodern Criminology
Postmodernism refers to a broad assortment of themes relevant to a wide variety of disciplines, including art, architecture, literature, and sociology. Postmodern criminology adopts its concern with language, symbols, and knowledge from the larger postmodern movement. Criminological applications of postmodernism constitute a diverse array of concepts and theories. As such, this entry serves to expose some broad commonalities, differences, and pro…
Triple Entitlement and Homicidal Anger
In the Unites States, middle-class Caucasian heterosexual males in their teenage years and in middle age commit mass murder, the killing of at least three victims during a single episode at one or more closely related locations, in numbers disproportionately high relative to their share of the population. Utilizing an intersectional theoretical approach, this article investigates the convergences of (1) white entitlement, (2) middle-class instabi…
The dilemmas of embodied symbolic representation
Numerous scholars have argued that we are currently in a post “tattoo renaissance” era wherein the practice has increasingly become a legitimate art form accepted by the American middle class. In order to facilitate this cultural transition, tattooed people legitimize their own tattoos through various narratives that ascribe deep semantic meaning to their images and words. Pulling from twenty-two in-depth interviews with tattoo removal clinicians…
Across Crimes, Criminals, and Contexts
Mass Murder at School and Cumulative Strain
To explain the genesis of mass murder committed by students at their schools, the authors propose a five-stage sequential model in which several criminological theories (strain theory, control theory, and routine activities theory) are brought to bear collectively to demonstrate their cumulative effect. These stages are as follows: chronic strain, uncontrolled strain, acute strain, the planning stage, and the massacre. Long-term frustrations (chr…
Mass Murder at School and Cumulative Strain
To explain the genesis of mass murder committed by students at their schools, the authors propose a five-stage sequential model in which several criminological theories (strain theory, control theory, and routine activities theory) are brought to bear collectively to demonstrate their cumulative effect. These stages are as follows: chronic strain, uncontrolled strain, acute strain, the planning stage, and the massacre. Long-term frustrations (chr…
Don't Name Them, Don't Show Them, But Report Everything Else
Prior research has shown that many mass shooters have explicitly admitted they want fame and have directly reached out to media organizations to get it. These fame-seeking offenders are particularly dangerous because they kill and wound significantly more victims than other active shooters, they often compete for attention by attempting to maximize victim fatalities, and they can inspire contagion and copycat effects. However, if the media change…
Triple Entitlement and Homicidal Anger
In the Unites States, middle-class Caucasian heterosexual males in their teenage years and in middle age commit mass murder, the killing of at least three victims during a single episode at one or more closely related locations, in numbers disproportionately high relative to their share of the population. Utilizing an intersectional theoretical approach, this article investigates the convergences of (1) white entitlement, (2) middle-class instabi…
The dilemmas of embodied symbolic representation
Numerous scholars have argued that we are currently in a post “tattoo renaissance” era wherein the practice has increasingly become a legitimate art form accepted by the American middle class. In order to facilitate this cultural transition, tattooed people legitimize their own tattoos through various narratives that ascribe deep semantic meaning to their images and words. Pulling from twenty-two in-depth interviews with tattoo removal clinicians…
It’s Better to Overreact
Whitewashing Criminology
Media Coverage of Mass Killers
In recent years, major media organizations have wondered if their coverage of mass shooters actually increases the risk of future attacks, and have asked how their reporting could be improved. In response, 149 experts have called for media to stop publishing the names and photos of mass killers (except during ongoing searches for escaped suspects), but continue reporting the other details of these crimes as needed. Here, we review some of the mos…
Across Crimes, Criminals, and Contexts
Mass Murder at School and Cumulative Strain
To explain the genesis of mass murder committed by students at their schools, the authors propose a five-stage sequential model in which several criminological theories (strain theory, control theory, and routine activities theory) are brought to bear collectively to demonstrate their cumulative effect. These stages are as follows: chronic strain, uncontrolled strain, acute strain, the planning stage, and the massacre. Long-term frustrations (chr…
Across Crimes, Criminals, and Contexts
The dilemmas of embodied symbolic representation
Numerous scholars have argued that we are currently in a post “tattoo renaissance” era wherein the practice has increasingly become a legitimate art form accepted by the American middle class. In order to facilitate this cultural transition, tattooed people legitimize their own tattoos through various narratives that ascribe deep semantic meaning to their images and words. Pulling from twenty-two in-depth interviews with tattoo removal clinicians…
Postmodern Criminology
Postmodernism refers to a broad assortment of themes relevant to a wide variety of disciplines, including art, architecture, literature, and sociology. Postmodern criminology adopts its concern with language, symbols, and knowledge from the larger postmodern movement. Criminological applications of postmodernism constitute a diverse array of concepts and theories. As such, this entry serves to expose some broad commonalities, differences, and pro…
Triple Entitlement and Homicidal Anger
In the Unites States, middle-class Caucasian heterosexual males in their teenage years and in middle age commit mass murder, the killing of at least three victims during a single episode at one or more closely related locations, in numbers disproportionately high relative to their share of the population. Utilizing an intersectional theoretical approach, this article investigates the convergences of (1) white entitlement, (2) middle-class instabi…
It’s Better to Overreact
Media Coverage of Mass Killers
In recent years, major media organizations have wondered if their coverage of mass shooters actually increases the risk of future attacks, and have asked how their reporting could be improved. In response, 149 experts have called for media to stop publishing the names and photos of mass killers (except during ongoing searches for escaped suspects), but continue reporting the other details of these crimes as needed. Here, we review some of the mos…
Don't Name Them, Don't Show Them, But Report Everything Else
Prior research has shown that many mass shooters have explicitly admitted they want fame and have directly reached out to media organizations to get it. These fame-seeking offenders are particularly dangerous because they kill and wound significantly more victims than other active shooters, they often compete for attention by attempting to maximize victim fatalities, and they can inspire contagion and copycat effects. However, if the media change…
Exploring Subcultural Trajectories
This study analyzes the life histories and subcultural trajectories of people who have at one time but no longer identify as racist skinheads. We find that, on the one hand, people are far more malleable with their subcultural identities than is commonly understood by law enforcement and researchers concerned with criminal desistance, and on the other hand, this does not necessitate a total abdication of stable subcultural identities and values a…
Moral Panic, Fear of Crime, and School Shootings
The concept of moral panic has been used to describe how society reacts to different threats, either real or perceived. Although most studies in this area rely on qualitative, historical data, recent efforts have employed quantitative applications of an attributional model to understand attitudes consistent with different characteristics of moral panic. The present study utilizes this model along with survey data from college students across the …
Whitewashing Criminology
All-American Massacre
Mass shootings and masculinities
This paper illustrates the role of gender throughout all five stages of the cumulative strain theory of mass shootings. Scholarship on masculinities helps explain the unusually wide gender disparity among mass shooters. Mass shooters who are boys and men experience stressors as emasculating rejections which accumulate over time. Boys and men are more likely than girls and women to be socially isolated and/or have anti-social connections that exac…
Criminology (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (5 obras) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)