Psychological Predictors of Mass-Murdering in Adolescents: Exploring the Psychological and Criminological Research

Abstract

The chapter describes and critically evaluates predictors of MM in adolescents. The review combines psychological and criminological theories, aiming to better understand the phenomenon. The methodology includes (1) literature review of scientific papers and (2) software-based text-analysis on crime-news. This integration will provide a critical view of adolescents who commit MM from both scientific and media content. Through a detailed description of MM's risk factors among adolescents, this chapter aims at increasing parents', school leaders', school counselors', social workers', teachers', and health professionals' knowledge on the phenomenon. In this way, families and institutions may be able to build prompt, preventative, and tailored strategies to counteract MM.