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Organizational structures and practices are better predictors of suicide terror threats than individual psychological dispositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Hector Qirko
Hector Qirko*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424-0001. [email protected]://qirkoh.people.cofc.edu/
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Abstract

Terror organizations tend to rely on a limited number of practices to reinforce commitment to suicide on the part of recruits. Therefore, given the many difficulties associated with identifying individuals willing to become suicide terrorists, understanding the organizational contexts in which most suicide terrorism takes place is likely to be more useful than psychological profiling for predicting future attacks.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 374 - 375
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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