| ID | 154357 |
| Title Proper | Community-Level comparison of terrorism movements in the United States |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Gruenewald, Jeff ; Fitzpatrick, Kevin M ; Smith, Brent L ; Roberts, Paxton |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The aim of this article is to identify characteristics of communities where persons indicted under terrorism charges lived, planned, and prepared prior to carrying out a terrorist act. Guided by a model of community deterioration and using data from the Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States database, findings indicate: (1) half of all census tracts where terrorists planned and prepared for attacks were located in the western United States; nearly one fourth were in the Northeast; (2) nationally, terrorist pre-incident activity is more likely to occur in census tracts with lower percentages of high school graduates for Al Qaeda and associated movements (AQAM) terrorism but not for far-right terrorism, higher percentages of households living below the poverty level, more urban places, and more unemployed; and (3) communities with terrorist pre-incident activity are different types of places compared to those where there was no pre-incident activity, generally between different regions of the country, and specifically in terms of differences across far-right and AQAM terrorist movements. |
| `In' analytical Note | Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol. 40, No.4-6; Apr-Jun 2017: p.399-418 |
| Journal Source | Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol: 40 No 4-6 |
| Key Words | United States ; Community-Level Compariso ; Terrorism Movements |