Profile of a lone wolf terrorist: a crisis management perspective

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60162694%3AG42__%2F18%3A00535599" target="_blank" >RIV/60162694:G42__/18:00535599 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/48135445:_____/18:N0000003

Result on the web

<a href="http://jssidoi.org/jssi/papers/papers/view/318" target="_blank" >http://jssidoi.org/jssi/papers/papers/view/318</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jssi.2018.8.1(1)" target="_blank" >10.9770/jssi.2018.8.1(1)</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Profile of a lone wolf terrorist: a crisis management perspective

Original language description

This paper focuses on terrorist attacks carried out by so-called 'lone wolves' or 'lone actors'. It provides an analytical evaluation of the basic characteristics of these attackers and discusses possible access to their identification in society. To create the profile of a 'typical' lone wolf, we collected information from a database of lone wolves who committed their terrorist attacks in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Australia from 1998 to 2016. Based on these data, it was demonstrated that lone wolves are not homogenous group, therefore, there is no one 'typical' lone wolf. Instead, three main groups of lone wolves were identified: 1) lone wolves with a criminal past, 2) lone wolves with a mental illness and 3) young lone wolves coming from minority groups in the country. These characteristics could be used as an auxiliary tool by state security forces during identification of potential lone wolf terrorists.

Czech name

Profile of a lone wolf terrorist: a crisis management perspective

Czech description

This paper focuses on terrorist attacks carried out by so-called 'lone wolves' or 'lone actors'. It provides an analytical evaluation of the basic characteristics of these attackers and discusses possible access to their identification in society. To create the profile of a 'typical' lone wolf, we collected information from a database of lone wolves who committed their terrorist attacks in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Australia from 1998 to 2016. Based on these data, it was demonstrated that lone wolves are not homogenous group, therefore, there is no one 'typical' lone wolf. Instead, three main groups of lone wolves were identified: 1) lone wolves with a criminal past, 2) lone wolves with a mental illness and 3) young lone wolves coming from minority groups in the country. These characteristics could be used as an auxiliary tool by state security forces during identification of potential lone wolf terrorists.

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

ISSN

2029-7017

e-ISSN

2029-7025

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

5-18

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85055741981