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" Are Suicide Bombings Really Unique: A Multi-Level Analysis of Worldwide Terrorist Incidents, 1980-2015 "
Michael Robert Distler
LaFree, Gary
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804674
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TL49509
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1939850072; 10286256
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Boven, David Thomas
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Are Suicide Bombings Really Unique: A Multi-Level Analysis of Worldwide Terrorist Incidents, 1980-2015\ Michael Robert DistlerLaFree, Gary
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University of Maryland, College Park
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2017
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261
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Committee members: Dugan, Laura; Johnson, Brian; Liu, Brooke; McGloin, Jean
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-30174-8
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Suicide bombing is a lethal terrorism tactic that kills over 8 people per attack and injures 21 other people, on average. Suicide bombings have also been used more frequently in 2015 than they have in any one year since the tactic was first introduced in Iraq in 1981 and they were also used in more countries and by more groups than ever before. Even though the tactic is continuing to grow around the globe, there have been few studies seeking to understand in what ways the tactic is unique from other forms of terrorism. While theorists have attempted to explain the initiation and use of the tactic across various conflicts, there has been no previous study, of which I am aware, that compares suicide bombings to other relevant tactics, such as vehicle bombings, as well as to all other terrorist attacks in a multilevel framework.
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Criminology
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Social sciences;Situational crime prevention;Suicide bombing;Terrorism
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LaFree, Gary
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Criminology and Criminal JusticeUniversity of Maryland, College Park
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