Introducing the Global Terrorism Database

LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura

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“…The reliance on open sources produces some strengths and some weaknesses (see LaFree and Dugan 2007). The most relevant concern for this research is that open sources are biased toward the most noteworthy events and are likely to underrepresent attacks on more remote parts of the globe.…”

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“…The GTD is an event-based database that documents all terrorist attacks across the globe from 1970 through 2010. 8 The collection was originally compiled by the Pinkerton Global Intelligence Services (PGIS) from 1970 through 1997, and then cleaned and updated by START staff and contractors (Dugan 2012;LaFree and Dugan 2007). Regardless of the collecting agent, all cases came from open sources available through media and other reporting agencies.…”

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Moving Beyond Deterrence

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Rational choice approaches have long suggested that reducing unwanted behavior requires raising the costs (or perceived costs) of a behavior through the threat of punishment-a process commonly referred to as deterrence. In the eighteenth century, Beccaria ([1764] 1983) argued that the state should punish law-breakers just enough so that the burdens of punishment outweigh any pleasure derived from perpetrating the crime-an idea that directly informs U.S. criminal law, military strategy, and a host of other social policy domains. Scholars have since applied the notion of deterrence to a range of areas, including nuclear doctrine (Brodie 1959) AbstractRational choice approaches to reducing terrorist violence would suggest raising the costs of terrorism through punishment, thereby reducing the overall expected utility of terrorism. In this article, we argue that states should also consider raising the expected utility of abstaining from terrorism through rewards. We test effects of repressive (or punishing) and conciliatory (or rewarding) actions on terrorist behavior using the newly developed GATE-Israel dataset, which identifies events by Israeli state actors toward Palestinian targets on a full range of counterterrorism tactics and policies from 1987 to 2004. Results show that repressive actions are either unrelated to terror or related to subsequent increases in terror, and conciliatory actions are generally related to decreases in terror, depending on the tactical period. Findings also reveal the importance of understanding the role of terrorists' constituencies for reducing violence.

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“…However, there is a lack of informative characteristics about terror attacks due to the nature of terrorism (LaFree & Dugan, 2007), and therefore there was a limitation on the data available. Brief descriptions of the variables considered in this study, along with the variable abbreviations, are provided in Table 1.…”

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Altruistic and Anomic Suicide: A Durkheimian Analysis of Palestinian Suicide Bombers

Abu-Lughod

Montoya

2016

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In the past two decades, suicide terrorism in its different forms has become a popular topic of research and debate. It has contributed to a different sense of normalcy and regularity in various societies across the world given that suicide bombings are relatively inexpensive and effective, compared with other kinds of terrorist methods. This study primarily focuses on suicide bombings in the Palestinian/Israeli territories, an area that has experienced conflict and tension for over six decades. In doing so, the research study uses Durkheim's typology of suicide as a theoretical framework to trace the history of suicide bombings in the Palestinian/Israeli territories, outline the characteristics of suicide bombers, their motivations, and how suicide bombings have been used as a form of resistance to occupation. The data collected cover suicide bombings that have occurred from April 1994 to February 2008. The research study uses logistic regression to examine the characteristics of the suicide bombers and their attacks. The results show, among other things, that the attacks possess elements of both altruistic and anomic types of suicide in the Durkheimian sense of the word.

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“…As LaFree and Dugan (2008 observe, although the heightened consciousness of the menace of terrorism of the past decade has led to a considerable increase in the literature on this subject, much of this literature has been based on non-quantitative evidence: informed opinion, intuition, and anecdotal evidence. In order, therefore, to provide a quantitative base for the study of terrorism, LaFree and Dugan (2008) and LaFree, Dugan, Fogg, and Scott (2006), under the auspices of the National Consortium for the…”

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“…Database II (see also, LaFree, Dugan, Fogg, and Scott, 2006) to study the nature of terrorist incidents in India in the seven-year period, 1998-2004. As LaFree and Dugan (2008 observe, although the heightened consciousness of the menace of terrorism of the past decade has led to a considerable increase in the literature on this subject, much of this literature has been based on non-quantitative evidence: informed opinion, intuition, and anecdotal evidence.…”

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Terrorist Incidents in India, 1998–2004: A Quantitative Analysis of Fatality Rates

Borooah¹

2009

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Using data from the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database II, this paper first provides information on the nature of terrorist incidents in India in the period 1998-2004: the Indian states that were worst affected by terrorist incidents and fatalities; the terrorist groups responsible for such incidents and their modus operandi.Next, the paper focuses on the issue of fatalities from terrorist incidents. It inquires into the extent to which the number of fatalities following an incident was influenced by the type of attack (bombings, armed assault etc.) and the extent to which it was influenced by the type of terrorist group. By examining the number of fatalities resulting from terrorist attacks in India, the paper disentangles the influence on this number of attack type and attack group. Lastly, the paper applies Atkinson's concept of equality-adjusted income to terrorism to arrive at the concept of equality-adjusted deaths from terrorist incidents: in order to avoid spectacular incidents resulting in the loss of a large number of lives -as in New York on September 11, 2001 and in Mumbai 26-29 November 2008 -"society" might be prepared to tolerate "low-grade" terrorism which resulted in a larger number of deaths in total but avoided a large number of deaths from a single iconic incident. Next, the paper focuses on the issue of fatalities from terrorist incidents. It inquires into the extent to which the number of fatalities following an incident was influenced by the type of attack (bombings, armed assault etc.) and the extent to which it was influenced by the type of terrorist group. By examining the number of fatalities resulting from terrorist attacks in India, the paper disentangles the influence on this number of attack type and attack group. Lastly, the paper applies Atkinson's concept of equality-adjusted income to terrorism to arrive at the concept of equality-adjusted deaths from terrorist incidents: in order to avoid spectacular incidents resulting in the loss of a large number of lives -as in New York on September 11, 2001 and in Mumbai 26-29 November 2008 -"society" might be prepared to tolerate "low-grade" terrorism which resulted in a larger number of deaths in total but avoided a large number of deaths from a single iconic incident.

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Introducing the Global Terrorism Database

Cited by 535 publications

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Moving Beyond Deterrence

Moving Beyond Deterrence

Altruistic and Anomic Suicide: A Durkheimian Analysis of Palestinian Suicide Bombers

Terrorist Incidents in India, 1998–2004: A Quantitative Analysis of Fatality Rates

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