RT Article
T1 Disrupting terrorist assassinations through situational crime prevention
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 64
IS 12
SP 1515
OP 1537
A1 Mandala, Marissa
A2 Freilich, Joshua D.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1582484724
AB This article uses environmental criminology and situational crime prevention (SCP) to devise a series of hypotheses to determine the factors that distinguish successful from unsuccessful assassination incidents. We analyzed a random sample of 100 successful and 100 unsuccessful assassination incidents from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) that occurred between 2005 and 2014. We then consulted open sources to create new SCP variables that we added to the original GTD data. The hypotheses were tested in a binary logistic regression. Results show that successful assassinations are associated with several SCP measures, including weapon type, fatalities, terrorist proximity to target, and attack and target location.
K1 Situational crime prevention
K1 Environmental criminology
K1 Assassination
K1 Terrorism
K1 Prevention
K1 Kriminalökologie
K1 Anschlag
K1 Prävention
DO 10.1177/0011128717718488