The Impact of International Terrorism on Community-level Violence

Friedman, Daniel

doi:10.1197/aemj.9.5.503-a

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“…In sum, contrary to popular belief, anecdotal reports, and preliminary analyses claiming to provide evidence for an increase in suicide following September 11 (Friedman, Coben, D'Antonio, & McKay, 2002), our interrupted time‐series analyses of the effects of catastrophic terrorist events on suicide mortality in New York and Oklahoma are clear. Though these two catastrophic events had a profound effect on numerous aspects of social life, including heightened levels of psychological morbidity, they had no perceptible influence on suicide mortality at the local, state, or national level.…”

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No Evidence of Suicide Increase Following Terrorist Attacks in the United States: An Interrupted Time‐Series Analysis of September 11 and Oklahoma City

Pridemore¹,

Trahan²,

Chamlin³

2009

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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There is substantial evidence of detrimental psychological sequelae following disasters, including terrorist attacks. The effect of these events on extreme responses such as suicide, however, is unclear. We tested competing hypotheses about such effects by employing autoregressive integrated moving average techniques to model the impact of September 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing on monthly suicide counts at the local, state, and national level. Unlike prior studies that provided conflicting evidence, rigorous time series techniques revealed no support for an increase or decrease in suicides following these events. We conclude that while terrorist attacks produce subsequent psychological morbidity and may affect self and collective efficacy well beyond their immediate impact, these effects are not strong enough to influence levels of suicide mortality.

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