Collective crime as a source of social solidarity: A tentative test of a functional model for responses to mass violence

Western Criminology Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1-15

  Vuori, Miika ^a   Hawdon, James ^b   Oksanen, Atte ^c   Räsänen, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collective crime; Emotional response to crime; Fear of crime; Functionalist model of crime; Path analysis; School shootings; Social solidarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893486023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10964886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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