How do members of extremist groups think about violence conducted by individual members
on the group's behalf? We examine the link between extremism‐motivated violence and …

In 2006, the Mexican government launched an aggressive campaign to weaken drug-
trafficking organizations (DTOs). The security policies differed significantly from those of …

The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half …

This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around
the world. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist …

With chapters written by leading scholars and researchers, the third edition of A Handbook
for the Study of Mental Health provides an updated, comprehensive review of the sociology …

We know a great deal more about the process of radicalization leading to violence than
when the term entered the popular lexicon a few years after 9/11. Yet fundamentally, it …

Rational choice approaches to reducing terrorist violence would suggest raising the costs of
terrorism through punishment, thereby reducing the overall expected utility of terrorism. In …

The present article outlines the role of personal, social, and cultural identity in religiously
and ethnically motivated terrorism. It is proposed that terrorism represents the confluence of …

Colonialism has three foundational concerns-violence, territory, and population control-all of
which rest on racialist discourse and practice. Placing the Zionist project in Israel/Palestine …

Suicide missions made their modern debut in 1981. In recent years, however, they have
witnessed an unprecedented increase according to several indicators, including number of …