‘I did my bit’: terrorism, tarde and the vehicle ramming attack as an imitative event

This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of purposely driving a vehicle into pedestrians and populated vehicles. It documents the recent (2015–2017) rise in the prevalence of ramming attacks and how these incidents challenge some of the assumptions...

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Authors: Miller, Vincent (Author) ; Hayward, Keith J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-23
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Affect
Contagion
Tarde, Gabriel de
Terrorism
Crime waves
Vehicle-ramming
Attacks
Virality