## Pathway to Violence

Two seemingly normal men, Anders Breivik and Thomas Mair. But their deeds were anything but normal. This module tells you their life stories, so that you can discover what constitutes alarming behaviour, and its causes and possible consequences.

#### Breivik and Mair

In this module we follow the pathways to violence of Breivik and Mair. The pathway to violence model outlines the steps towards an act of violence inflicted on others, like an attack, or an act of self-inflicted violence, like suicide. Click on the image to enlarge the figure.

#### Two life stories

You can see that an act of violence usually starts with a grievance or frustration. That is also the case in the life stories central to this module. We follow the two men from the origin of their grievances to their ultimate acts of violence.

We show you each step of the process as it unfolds in the case of Anders Breivik. To involve you actively in the subject matter, we challenge you at the end of the module to fill in the steps in Mair's process, using the sources provided.