"The Perfect Aryan Housewife": Intersection of Extremist Violence and Violence Against Women. (March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Scaptura, Maria N.; Hayes, Brittany E.; Gruenewald, Jeff; Parkin, William S.; Protas, Michelle E.
• Other Names: Kokkalera Stuti S. guest-editor.; Gonzalez Cassandra Mary Frances guest-editor.; Williams Jason guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Crime and delinquency. Volume 69:Number 3(2023)
• Page Start: 607
• Page End: 629
• Publication Date: 2023-03
• Subjects: masculinity -- violence against women -- general strain theory -- masculinity strain -- far-right extremism; Crime -- United States -- Periodicals; Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Periodicals; 364.05
• DOI: 10.1177/00111287221103746
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0011-1287

Abstract

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.