%0 Journal Article
%T An Unlikely Retirement: The 2017 Las Vegas Massacre as an Exercise in Project
%A D. J. Williams
%A Michael Arntfield
%J Homicide Studies
%@ 1552-6720
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1088767918786765
%X In recent years, homicide scholarship has been the beneficiary of an increasingly interdisciplinary framework that has come to include a leisure science perspective in attempting to explain murder as a pleasure-seeking avocation for offenders. In this article, the authors employ a leisure-based approach to the Las Vegas Massacre as a foundational case study on multiple murder as project-based deviant leisure. Homicidal leisure-based projects, as suggested here, may also amount to intuitive extensions of other higher-risk hobbies known as edgework. A leisure approach to understanding some forms of multiple murder provides valuable new insights while also integrating important tradition
%K Las Vegas Massacre
%K Stephen Paddock
%K project-based leisure
%K deviant leisure
%K edgework
%K mass shooters
%K flow theory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1088767918786765