RT Article
T1 A situated comparison of suicide and non-suicide terrorist plots and homicides in the United States, 1990-2014
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 65
IS 9
SP 1187
OP 1217
A1 Gruenewald, Jeff
A1 Klein, Brent R.
A1 Parkin, William S.
LA German
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1668765241
AB This study compares suicide and non-suicide incidents in the United States by analyzing data from the U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) on terrorist incidents committed by extreme far-right (FR) and radical Islamic terrorists between 1990 and 2014. Drawing from Situational Crime Prevention (SCP), we investigate whether suicide incidents are more likely than non-suicide incidents to be directed at secure targets and to utilize firearms. Findings reveal that suicide terrorism is significantly more likely to be committed against secure targets and similarly likely to involve the use of firearms in comparison with non-suicide terrorism. In addition, suicide terrorism is more likely to be committed by lone actors, radical Islamic terrorists, and result in fatalities. Implications for terrorism prevention are discussed.
K1 Suicide terrorism
K1 Situational crime prevention
K1 Homicide
K1 Selbstmordattentat
K1 Terrorismus
K1 Kriminalprävention
K1 Terrorismusbekämpfung
K1 Mord
DO 10.1177/0011128718796461