The age of lone wolf terrorism / Mark S. Hamm and Ramon Spaaij.
The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the...
Uniform Title: | Studies in transgression.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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Series: | Studies in transgression.
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Physical Description: | x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: the age of lone wolf terrorism
- Identifying commonalities among lone wolf terrorists
- Old wine in new skin : reimagining lone wolf terrorism
- The American lone wolf terrorist : trends, modus operandi, and background factors
- The roots of radicalization
- The enablers
- Broadcasting intent : the key to preventing lone wolf terrorism
- Triggering events
- The radicalization model of lone wolf terrorism
- The Little Rock military shooting
- The Pittsburgh police shooting
- Lone wolf sting operations
- Lone wolf terrorism and FBI mythmaking
- Conclusion: aftermath : countering lone wolf terrorism
- Appendix: list of cases
- Notes
- Index.