scholarly journals Extreme sex-negativity: An examination of helplessness, hopelessness, and misattribution of blame among “Incel” multiple homicide offenders

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
DJ Williams ◽  
Michael Arntfield
Keyword(s):  
Hate Speech ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
Extreme Form ◽  
Life Functioning ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
Extreme Violence ◽  
Multiple Homicide

Self-identified involuntary celibates, or “incels,” have congregated online in recent years as a way to discuss and promote a particular patriarchal and blatantly misogynist ideology that blames women, specifically, and feminist society, broadly, for the unmet sexual desires of men who feel entitled, based on gender, to sexual experiences. Thus, incel ideology is an obvious example of severe sex-negativity. While incel ideology is commonly filled with hate speech and threats of violence, there are very few, fortunately, who go on to commit extreme violence. The present study examines feelings of hopelessness and helplessness among seven incel offenders who committed or clearly attempted to commit multiple murder. Although these offenders invariably felt hopelessness and helplessness across major areas of life functioning, they grossly misattributed blame to women for their overall misery. Findings provide valuable insights into the psychology of an extreme form of sex-negativity that extends a mindset of revenge rape to pseudocommando-style mass murder.

scholarly journals Forensic Behavioral Science of Serial and Mass Murder with an Addition of Leisure Research: A Descriptive Synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
D J Williams
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
Multiple Homicide ◽  
Violent Events ◽  
Science Disciplines

Prevalence rates of multiple homicide are statistically rare and vary across nations, yet such cases create substantial suffering for victims and can generate widespread fear among the general population. Despite extreme rarity, it remains important for forensic experts and professionals to be prepared when extremely violent events occur. This review summarizes contemporary behavioral science of serial and mass murder, then highlights the application of recent leisure research to add new motivational and behavioral insights. Research on the application of leisure science to homicide research is in its infancy, yet in conjunction with other related behavioral science disciplines, appears to hold promise in understanding, and perhaps helping to prevent, future violence.

Freedom

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-108
Author(s):  
Marc Crépon ◽  
James Martel
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Extreme Form ◽  
Agricultural Prices ◽  
The World ◽  
Massive Scale

This chapter examines the most recurrent, extensive, and disturbing form of vulnerability in the world: famine. While Europe imposes production quotas to boost agricultural prices, others, beyond Europe's borders, die of hunger on a massive scale. Famine epitomizes the axiom according to which the world is without meaning if people make exceptions to the assistance they bring to the vulnerable and mortal other. In other words, because there is no more extreme form of abandonment than consigning others to ineluctable death, famine divests globalization of any possible meaning—other than consent to mass murder. The chapter then looks at the depiction of famine in the works of Vasily Grossman and Emmanuel Levinas. Famine reduces freedom to powerlessness in two ways. First, famine is an element in the arsenal of weapons that tyrants count on to subdue freedom. It cultivates fear and in the end suffocates all resistance. Moreover, famine turns most of those whom it spares into spectators, passive witnesses, and even accomplices in the abandonment that it reveals. What is each and everyone's freedom worth if it proves incapable of assisting the hungry—if freedom proclaims that it is powerless, that famine is not its concern or responsibility, but instead the fault of a climate, of governments, of globalization?

Multiple Homicide: Patterns of Serial and Mass Murder

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 407-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Alan Fox ◽  
Jack Levin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Murder ◽  
Multiple Homicide

Speech and Atrocity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Balkans

Chapter 1 limns the chronology of speech and government-sponsored mass violence over the centuries. After an overview of pre-twentieth century hate rhetoric, it focuses on Ottoman propaganda in relation to the Armenian Genocide. It then describes the Nazi hate speech campaign against the Jews, the archetypal modern template for mass murder agitprop. It then moves to the post–Cold War period and examines the role of speech in the 1990s atrocities committed in the Balkans and Rwanda. The chapter concludes by examining more recent instances of atrocity rhetoric connected to mass crimes: postelection violence in Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire; extremist Buddhist attacks against Muslims in Myanmar; the Islamic State’s genocidal violence against the Yazidis; and Dinka versus Nuer bloodshed in South Sudan. In tracing this history, two overarching rhetorical strategies become apparent—exclusion (defaming and dehumanizing the out-group) and threat (warning that the out-group threatens violence so must be eliminated first).

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