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Intersection of extremist violence and violence against women
Scaptura, M. N., Hayes, B. E., Gruenewald, J., Parkin, W. S., & Protas, M. E. (2023). "The Perfect Aryan Housewife": Intersection of extremist violence and violence against women. Crime and Delinquency, 69(3), 607-629. Article 00111287221103746. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287221103746
Despite rhetoric on the association between violence against women and extremist violence, little empirical work has examined the intersection of these forms of violence. Relying on open-source data from the Extremist Crime Database, we examine how these forms of violence intersect in terms of a strained dominant masculinity. Among the 54 extremist offenders with documented histories of violence against women, extremist offenders committed familicides (n = 23), or violence against women as a precursor to extremist violence (n = 25). For a small minority of offenders (n = 6), these forms of violence intersected in a form of settling scores against women and minoritized groups.
