@article{ref1,
title="A situated comparison of suicide and non-suicide terrorist plots and homicides in the United States, 1990-2014",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="2019",
author="Gruenewald, Jeff and Klein, Brent R. and Parkin, William S. and Freilich, Joshua D. and Chermak, Steven",
volume="65",
number="9",
pages="1187-1217",
abstract="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. <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/0011128718796461",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128718796461"
}