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Differentiation of international terrorism: attack as threat, means, and violence
Author(s) -
Yokota K.,
Watanabe K.,
Wachi T.,
Hoshino M.,
Sato A.,
Fujita G.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1544-4767
pISSN - 1544-4759
DOI - 10.1002/jip.71
Subject(s) - terrorism , criminology , psychology , sample (material) , preference , use of force , multidimensional scaling , computer security , social psychology , political science , law , international law , computer science , economics , chemistry , chromatography , microeconomics , machine learning
This study examined whether international terrorism could be differentiated into different behavioural themes related to the way of using force. The sample consisted of 217 international terrorist organisations that had perpetrated five or more terrorist incidents. A non‐metric multidimensional scaling analysis revealed that all of the terrorist incidents could be assigned to one of three themes reflecting different styles of the use of force: ‘attack as threat’, ‘attack as means’, and ‘attack as violence’. In the current sample, 189 of the terrorist organisations repeated one theme in more than 50% of their series of incidents, suggesting their preference for one of the three themes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.