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Terrorists Target Selection

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Author by : C. Drake
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1998-08-26
Publisher by : Springer

ISBN : 9780230374676

The author examines the factors which influence terrorists' target selection. In particular he looks at the influence of the ideologies, strategies and tactics of terrorist groups, and describes how these are restricted by the terrorists' resources, by protective and anti-terrorist measures, by the society within which the terrorists operate, and by the nature of the terrorists and their supporters. He concludes that terrorists' target selection is often both explicable and logical....

Terrorists Target Selection

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Author by : C. Drake
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1998-11-11
Publisher by : Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN : 031221197X

Spatial Decision Making Of Terrorist Target Selection

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Author by : Zoe Marchment
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:1167332084

Research consistently supports the notion that terrorists are rational actors. However, there has been a tendency to focus on distal factors associated with involvement in terrorism, and there is a distinct lack of empirical research on aspects of attack commission at the individual level. Little has been done to identify proximal factors associated with attacks. This thesis uses multiple paradigms from environmental criminology, including journey-to-crime analyses, various spatial and temporal statistics, risk terrain modelling and discrete choice modelling, to examine the target selection for two of the current national security threats to the UK: lone-actor terrorism and Northern Ireland related terrorism. Collectively, the findings indicate that target selection is guided by an inherent logic, and that terrorists are rational in their spatial decision making. The first piece of analysis demonstrates that lone-actor terrorists behave in a similar way to group terrorists and urban criminals. Their residence-to-attack journeys display a classic distance decay pattern. The second empirical chapter shows how attacks by violent dissident Republicans in the period studied were spatially and temporally clustered. The following chapter identifies differences between risk factors for bombings and bomb hoaxes, and suggests that dissident Republicans may select less ideological targets for bombings relative to bomb hoaxes. The final empirical chapter demonstrates that the locations of attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army were influenced by characteristics of the target areas as well as the properties of their likely journey to the target. In the concluding chapter, a new framework for target selection is presented and assessed using illustrative examples of recent attacks in the U.K. Important insights are provided that could guide and improve the efficacy of preventative and disruptive measures....

Extreme Ideologies Situational Factors And Terrorists Target Selection

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Author by : Evan Mudgett
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2020
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:1244172642

The purpose of the current study is to examine how ideology and situational factors shape terrorist target selection in the United States. While a growing number of studies have examined target selection by terrorists, the current study is the first to consider how combinations of factors present situated opportunities for terrorists to select particular types of targets as opposed to others. Guided by the situational crime prevention approach, this study relies on data from the American Terrorism Study (ATS) to measure attributes of incidents perpetrated by far-right and Islamic extremists and target selection. The outcomes of interest include government versus citizenry targets and human versus non-human targets. Bivariate and multivariate statistical tests are used to examine how ideology and situational factors statistically predict target selection. In addition, conjunctive analysis of case configurations (CACC) is used to examine how configurations of key factors are more or less associated with the selection of particular target types. Findings indicate that ideology and weapon type were two of the most significant factors associated with target selection by terrorists. The results of the CACC also revealed that some configurations of ideological and situational factors resulted in increased or decreased chances that terrorists would select one type of target over another, highlighting the interconnectedness of factors shaping target selection. This study concludes with implications for terrorism prevention and suggestions for future research....

Pathologies Of Terrorist Target Selection

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Author by : Sarat Krishnan
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:695035217

The phenomenon of Terrorism has perplexed and fascinated policy makers and scholars. While there has been significant amount of research on Terrorism, the dynamics or Pathologies of Terrorist Target Selection have received less attention, with few comprehensive treatises on the subject. In this paper, I review and critique existing literature on the subject, while offering a different perspective and model for this dynamic. First, I introduce a contemporary definition of terrorism and establish a framework for the analysis of Terrorist Target Selection. In Chapter 2, I posit that accurate Target Selection Forecasting Techniques need to account for the Adaptive Learning Mechanisms that Terrorist Groups adopt and existing case studies on the subject. Chapter 3 undertakes a critical literature review of Target Selection Case Studies. In Chapter 4, I suggest new research proposals that adopt this theme. In conclusion, I offer what we believe is a novel approach to understanding Terrorist Target Selection and argue that such a model should be flexible enough to work across the various Ideological Silos that Terrorist movements are bracketed into in the current Geo-Political Environment....

A Terrorist Target Selection And Prioritization Model

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Author by : George E. Stungis
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2003
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:669758662

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The Dynamics Of A Terrorist Targeting Process

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Author by : Cato Hemmingby
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Publisher by : Springer

ISBN : 9781137579973

This book provides an in-depth analysis of probably the most horrific solo terrorist operation the world has ever seen. On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people when he bombed the Government District in Oslo, before he conducted a shooting attack against a political youth camp at Utøya. The main focus of the book is on the operational aspects of the events, particularly the target selection and decision-making process. Why did Breivik choose the targets he finally attacked, what influenced his decision-making and how did he do it? Using unique source material, providing details never published before, the authors accurately explain how even this ruthless terrorist acted under a number of constraints in a profoundly dynamic process. This momentous work is a must read for scholars, students and practitioners within law enforcement, intelligence, security and terrorism studies....

Determinants Of Terrorist Target Selection

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Author by : Taylor Jeanne Haywood
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2017
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:1005670937

A research design employing multiple ordinary least squares regression is utilized. The findings demonstrate the importance of the independent variables, as well as the significance of the effects of the two-way and three-way interactions of variables from the three categories. Furthermore, the multiple regression models explain a greater percentage of the effects of the independent variables on the percentage of attacks against civilian targets when the three-way interaction variable is included than when this interaction variable is not included. From these findings, two primary policy implications are derived....

Who To Bomb How Ideology Influences Terrorists Target Choice

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Author by : Jann Rüter
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:1137286275

Does ideology matter for the target selection of terrorist organisations? This thesis asks whether or not the ideology of a terrorist group is a reliable determinant in explaining why certain countries are attacked by Islamist, far-left, far-right and separatist groups. The assumption is that the ideology of a terrorist group determines how they perceive the world, including which countries they perceive as a threat to their cause and therefore must be attacked. lt is expected that lslamists disproportionally target the West, Israel and Muslim majority countries, that far-left terrorists disproportionally target the USA and Israel and that far-right and separatist terrorist organisations do not commit as many transnational terrorist attacks as Islamist and far-left terrorist organisations. To find out if these hypotheses hold, negative binominal and logit regressions were conducted. The results are mixed. lslamists target Israel and Muslim majority more often, but not the West. Far-left terrorists disproportionally target the USA but not Israel and far-right and separatist terrorists commit significantly fewer transnational attacks than lslamists, but more than left-wing terrorists. The analysis shows that, although not the only one, ideology is an important determinant for target selection and that other determinants' relevance also depends on the ideological basis of terrorist organisations....

Globalization And The Rise Of International Terrorism

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Author by : David J. Haimsky
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2003
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:54853975

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