Exploring the link between 'intimate' terrorism and mass public violence

女权主义学者长期以来一直认为，公共/私人分界线的存在使男性对女性的暴力行为非政治化，并将其置于国家干预的范围之外。公共暴力和私人暴力的概念如此不同，这一事实也模糊了它们之间可能存在的任何关系。然而，令人信服的轶事证据表明，家庭虐待和公共恐怖袭击的实施可能实际上是有联系的：例如，在2017年英国的七名袭击者中，已知有四人经历过或实施了家庭虐待;对其他袭击的简要调查-包括尼斯，波士顿马拉松，脉冲夜总会，Lindt咖啡馆和查理周刊-表明了一种模式。尽管有这些证据，但没有系统的研究来调查这种大规模公共暴力行为与家庭虐待之间的潜在联系。相反，许多分析依赖于严重种族化的“恐怖主义”范式，这掩盖了“恐怖主义”行为和父权制结构中常见的无数其他形式的暴力之间的相似性。在模糊这些相似之处，这样的分析无法解释如何“公共”和“私人”暴力交叉。借鉴洛伊斯·普雷瑟、沙德·马鲁纳和斯维农·桑德伯格等叙事犯罪学家的方法，本研究将解决分析中的这一差距。使用深入的案例研究和主题为主导的访谈，它将通过探索所谓的“伊斯兰”罪犯，极右翼罪犯和那些犯下帮派暴力的人的暴力历史，从那些犯下这两种暴力的人的角度来研究“私人”和“公共”暴力之间的关系。在此过程中，它将试图了解这些肇事者的犯罪决定背后的世界观，以及他们自己对暴力升级到公共领域的理解。通过更好地了解施暴者的观点，我们可以学到如何防止进一步暴力的关键教训，这对国家安全问题和采取协调一致行动解决家庭虐待的紧迫性具有重大意义。

Feminist scholars have long posited that the existence of a public/private divide functions todepoliticise male violence against women and place it beyond the realm of stateintervention. The fact that public and private violence are conceptualised so differently alsofunctions to obscure any relationship that may exist between them. However, persuasiveanecdotal evidence suggests that the perpetration of domestic abuse and public terrorattacks may in fact be linked: Out of seven 2017 UK attackers, for instance, four were knownto have experienced or perpetrated domestic abuse; A brief survey of other attacks -including Nice, the Boston Marathon, Pulse Nightclub, Lindt Café and Charlie Hebdo -indicates a pattern. Despite this evidence, no systematic research exists to investigate apotential link between such acts of mass public violence and domestic abuse. Instead, muchanalysis rests on the heavily racialised 'terrorism' paradigm, which obscures similaritiesbetween 'terroristic' behaviours and myriad other forms of violence that are commonplacewithin patriarchal structures. In obscuring these similarities, such analysis cannot accountfor how 'public' and 'private' violence intersect. Drawing on the approach of narrativecriminologists such as Lois Presser, Shadd Maruna and Sveinung Sandberg, this research willaddress that gap in analysis. Using in-depth case studies and subject-led interviews, it willinvestigate what the relationship between 'private' and 'public' violence might be from theperspective of those who perpetrate both by exploring the violent histories of so-called'Islamist' offenders, far-right offenders and those who have committed gang violence. Indoing so, it will seek to understand the worldviews behind these perpetrators' criminogenicdecisions and their own understanding of the escalation of their violence into the publicsphere. By better understanding perpetrators' perspectives, we can potentially learn cruciallessons in how to prevent further violence, with significant implications for questions ofnational security and for the urgency of concerted action to address domestic abuse.