E.V. MULQUEEN

VIOLENCE & HARM SYSTEMS ANALYST

RESEARCH & THEORY DEVELOPMENT

E.V. Mulqueen is an independent Violence & Harm Systems Analyst specialising in the structural, emotional, and identity-based mechanisms that produce violence, abuse, suicide, and extremist harm.

Mulqueen develops original theoretical frameworks for understanding how emotional architecture, identity logic, suppression, and power orientation shape harm trajectories across individual, relational, institutional, and ideological contexts. Their work focuses on mechanisms of formation and escalation rather than behavioural outcomes, diagnoses, or surface-level risk indicators.

Operating outside traditional disciplinary silos, Mulqueen’s analysis integrates criminology, psychology, sociology, feminist theory, and survivor-informed research to examine forms of harm that are frequently misclassified, flattened, or rendered invisible by behaviourist, pathology-based, or engagement-focused models. Their work is particularly concerned with how emotional suppression, regulation displacement, entitlement logic, and control-based safety beliefs translate into coercive dynamics, violence, and self-harm over time.

Mulqueen is the originator of the Systemic Masculine Harm Dynamics (SMHD) framework — an evolving body of theory and analytical tools designed to map mechanisms of harm and escalation across gendered and non-gendered contexts. This body of work includes original models of masculine emotional suppression, regulatory harm, coercive control, grievance-driven violence, and suicide–harm coupling pathways, alongside developing theory in areas such as sadism, desecration, and structural emotional criminology.

Their analysis emphasises early identification of high-risk identity and regulation patterns, with applications across intimate partner violence prevention, suicide prevention, extremist and grievance-fuelled violence, and institutional harm reduction. Rather than locating harm primarily in individual pathology, Mulqueen’s work examines how socialisation, power structures, and regulatory expectations shape risk trajectories long before overt violence occurs.

Mulqueen’s approach is theory-first, system-level, and non-clinical. They do not provide therapy or diagnosis. Instead, they develop analytical frameworks, risk models, and conceptual tools designed to support research design, policy development, prevention strategy, and institutional decision-making in high-complexity harm contexts.

In addition to independent research and theory development, Mulqueen undertakes advisory and consultative work with organisations seeking to address harm dynamics that fall between existing disciplinary, clinical, or policy frameworks — particularly where high levels of engagement or funding have failed to reduce violence, suicide, or coercive harm.

Mulqueen’s research is ongoing and evolving, with formal academic affiliation anticipated as their work progresses into postgraduate research and institutional collaboration. Their current focus is on translating complex theoretical models into empirically testable frameworks and applied analytic tools for use in prevention, policy, and systems design.

Core Focus

Mulqueen’s analytical work examines how emotional architecture, identity systems, and regulation mechanisms intersect to produce and displace harm across domains including violence, coercive control, suicide, and extremist escalation.

Their work integrates criminology, psychology, sociology, and gender analysis into original diagnostic frameworks designed to identify risk before collapse or violence occurs.

Key Contributions

Mulqueen is the originator of multiple original frameworks, including:

Structural Emotional Criminology
Masculine Emotional Suppression Cycle
Suicide–Harm Coupling Typology
Control-Based Safety Illusion (authoritarian identity logic)
Externalised Regulation Accommodation (ERA)
Sadism-as-Witness Theory
Desecration & Dehumanisation Typologies

These frameworks are used to:

map escalation pathways
identify blind spots in prevention programs
distinguish trauma-linked harm from dominance-invested harm
support early intervention and research design

Analytical Orientation

E.V. Mulqueen is a systems-level analyst whose work examines how harm is produced, organised, normalised, and displaced across social, relational, institutional, and ideological structures.

Rather than specialising in a single harm category, their work develops cross-cutting theoretical frameworks that explain:

how emotional suppression becomes structural risk
how power and control replace regulation
how identity threat escalates into harm
how institutions misidentify causes while managing outcomes
how violence, abuse, suicide, and extremism emerge from shared underlying logics

Masculinity is analysed not as a male-only trait, but as a structural and ideological system that shapes emotional regulation, power orientation, identity threat, and harm expression across all genders within patriarchal architectures.

Scope of Analysis

Mulqueen’s analytical work spans multiple domains, including:

interpersonal, structural, and ideological violence
harm and dehumanisation processes
masculinity and gendered emotional systems
coercive control and relational power dynamics
suicide and self-destructive collapse
sadism, desecration, and symbolic violence
radicalisation, grievance, and authoritarian identity
institutional harm, behavioural governance, and risk displacement
emotional suppression across family, culture, and policy

These are treated not as separate specialties, but as interconnected expressions of the shared system failures.

What Distinguishes This Work

Mulqueen’s analysis does not begin with diagnosis, pathology, or behaviour.

It begins with:

emotional architecture
identity logic
regulation strategy
power orientation
suppression and displacement pathways

This allows for the identification of:

hidden escalation trajectories
false safety mechanisms
harm masked as stability or resilience
prevention models that unintentionally reinforce risk

Framework Development

Mulqueen is the originator of multiple original analytical frameworks used to map harm systems, including work on:

Emotional suppression as structural risk
Regulation displacement (internal, external, hybrid)
Control-based safety illusions
Sadism and witnessing logics
Desecration and symbolic harm
Structural emotional criminology

Frameworks are developed for research, policy, prevention, and early identification, not public-facing simplification.

Professional Orientation

Mulqueen’s work is mechanism-first, not outcome-driven.

Rather than asking how to change behaviour, their analysis examines:

what emotional logic governs the behaviour
what identity threat is being defended
where accountability collapses into annihilation logic
how institutions unintentionally accommodate harm

This approach aligns with systems thinking and interdisciplinary research practices used in policy analysis, prevention design, and structural explanation models.

Engagement

Mulqueen engages collaboratively with governments, research bodies, NGOs, and academic partners seeking analytical support in high-complexity harm contexts. Engagement formats include:

rapid advisory analysis
custom theory and framework development
multi-month research design partnerships

Current Work

Founder, Helvette Think Tank
Independent Violence & Harm Systems Analysis Practice