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Suicide Terrorism

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This chapter provides an overview of academic research on suicide terrorism. Challenges regarding defining suicide terrorism are discussed, and trends and statistics regarding suicide terrorist attacks are outlined. These trends and statistics serve as basis for an historical analysis of the evolution of suicide terrorist networks. Organizational, religious, socio-economic, social, psychological, and motivational factors related to suicide terrorism are reviewed.

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The authors are indebted to Charlotte de Roon for her comments on a previous version of this chapter.

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    Mark Dechesne

  2. Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, USA

    Bryn Bandt-Law

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Dechesne, M., Bandt-Law, B. (2017). Suicide Terrorism. In: Kumar, U. (eds) Handbook of Suicidal Behaviour. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4816-6_8

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