Terrorist Plots the United States

Strom, Kevin J.; Hollywood, John S.; Pope, Mark

doi:10.1002/9781118923986.ch30

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“…A Rand study found that median age of a homegrown terrorist in the period of September 2001 through December 2010 is 27 (Jenkins, 2010). Another national study found an average of 17 people annually as being identified in homegrown terrorist plots between September 11, 2001 and December 31, 2009, with an average age of 28, and 65% under age 30 (Strom et al, 2010). The Anti-Defamation League’s extremism analyst Oren Segal, explains, The Internet continues to serve as a convenient tool and gathering place for would-be jihadists.…”

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Levin

2015

American Behavioral Scientist

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Before the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leveraged the Internet into a truly modern quasi-state propaganda machine through horrendous online videos, travel handbooks, and sophisticated Twitter messengering, more humble yet highly effective precursors targeted youthful Western Muslims for radicalism, during a time when home grown plots peaked. These brash new entrants into the crowded freewheeling world of extremist cyber-haters joined racists, religious extremists of other faiths, Islamophobes, single issue proponents, as well as anti-government rhetoriticians and conspiracists. The danger from these evolving new provocateurs, then and now, is not that they represent a viewpoint that is widely shared by American Muslims. However, the earlier successful forays by extremist Salafists, firmly established the Internet as a tool to rapidly radicalize, train and connect a growing, but small number of disenfranchised or unstable young people to violence. The protections that the First Amendment provide to expression in the United States, contempt for Western policies and culture, contorted fundamentalism, and the initial successes of these early extremist Internet adopters, outlined here, paved the way for the ubiquitous and sophisticated online radicalization efforts we see today.

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Levin

2015

American Behavioral Scientist

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Not so different after all: Increased arrests and convictions (but not sentence length) deter terrorism

Wolfowicz

Campedelli

Seaward

et al. 2023

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While countries differ significantly in how they handle terrorism, in the west, criminal justice systems tend to treat terrorism similar to other crime, with police, prosecutors, judges and courts, and penal systems carrying out similar functions of investigations, apprehension, charging, convicting, and overseeing punishments respectively. While there is a robust literature on deterrent effects for crime, there is a dearth of research when it comes to terrorism. This despite evidence of significant overlaps between crime and terrorism. We address this gap in the literature with a unique dataset covering terrorism offending, arrests, charges, convictions, and sentencing over 16 years in 28 EU-member states. Applying a dynamic panel data model, we find that the probability of apprehension and punishment has an inverse relationship with terrorism offending. Conversely, the rate of charged individuals is associated with a small increase in the terrorism offending rate. The results for sentence length are less clear, with either negligible, or small iatrogenic effects. The results demonstrate that the overlap between crime and terrorism may extend to general deterrence. These findings should be informative for both the research agenda and policy discussion.

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Terrorist Plots the United States

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Not so different after all: Increased arrests and convictions (but not sentence length) deter terrorism

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