Why Violence Spreads: The Contagion of International Terrorism

Midlarsky, Manus I.; Crenshaw, Martha; Yoshida, Fumihiko

doi:10.2307/2600202

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“…Violence meets the dictionary definition of disease (characteristic signs and symptoms causing morbidity and mortality [14]) and of contagious (transmissible, causing more of itself [11]). Violence also exhibits the population and individual characteristics of contagious epidemics-clustering, geo-temporal spreading, and person-to-person transmission [11,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Incubation periods, defined as the time from infection to evidence of clinical disease, are variable in both infectious diseases and violence.…”

Section: Violence Is a Contagious Health Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

Slutkin¹,

Ransford

Zvetina

2018

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Violence is best understood as an epidemic health problem, and it can be effectively prevented and treated using health methods to stop events and outbreaks and to reduce its spread. This health framing is important because it recognizes that violence is a threat to the health of populations, that exposure to violence causes serious health problems, and that violent behavior is contagious and can be treated as a contagious process. Relatively standard and highly effective health approaches to changing behaviors and norms are increasingly being applied to the problem of violence and are showing strong evidence of impact among individuals and communities. We need to mobilize our nation's health care and public health systems and methods to work with communities and other sectors to stop this epidemic.

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Section: Violence Is a Contagious Health Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

Slutkin¹,

Ransford

Zvetina

2018

AMA Journal of Ethics

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“…Other related studies have shed some light on this phenomenon. For example, hierarchy was used in one study by Midlarsky, Crenshaw, and Yoshida (June 1980) as a theory to explain the spread of terrorism "from the least powerful" and "from the weak states to the strong" (i.e., from Latin America to Western Europe). European terrorist groups borrow ideology, rhetoric, and methods from the Third World, as well as techniques of bombing, which transfer quite easily.…”

Section: Media and Terrorism: Symbiotic Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-Political Socialization, the Press and Politics

Landtsheer¹,

Farnen²,

German³

et al. 2014

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“…and 2/ which channels are the most relevant? Political scientists and international relations scholars have discussed these questions extensively (see for instance, Midlarsky, Creenshaw and Yoshida 1980, Matthews and Shambaugh 1998, Crenshaw 1981, Martin 2001. Li and Schaub (2004) is a recent quantitative analysis of the impact of globalization on transnational terrorism.…”

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International Trade, Security, And Transnational Terrorism : Theory And Empirics

Mirza¹,

Verdier²

2006

Policy Research Working Papers

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In this paper, we offer a general analytical framework to illustrate the complex two-way interactions between trade and transnational terrorism. We then survey the recent economic literature in light of this framework by pointing to the importance in empirical studies of a) controlling appropriately for theses interactions, b) distinguishing between "source" countries and "target" countries of terrorism, and c) taking into account the intertemporal persistence of terrorism between specific pairs of countries.

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Why Violence Spreads: The Contagion of International Terrorism

Cited by 147 publications

References 24 publications

How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion

E-Political Socialization, the Press and Politics

International Trade, Security, And Transnational Terrorism : Theory And Empirics

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