Thesis
Women in terrorism: an organizational analysis of terror groups that directly employ women in attacks
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2013
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/101944
Abstract
Due to an incredible increase in political attention to terrorism, it has become a very popular subject for researchers. However, the concept of women as terrorists has received relatively little scrutiny, especially when using an organizational approach to look at groups that employ women. This paper will utilize the American Terrorism Study (ATS) with information on domestic attacks (attacks that occur on U.S. soil, regardless of the group perpetrating it) as it includes the sex of the attacker and their group affiliation. This paper will also synthesize the respective literatures and systematically assess the extent that groups which employ women in attacks differ along organizational lines (professionalism [attack coordination and sophistication], mission statement, presence and nature of leadership hierarchy ...etc.) when compared to groups that do not employ women. Findings indicate support for a few propositions offered herein. First, groups with a greater propensity to assault strategic or government targets are more likely to have women in attacks. Also, those groups that have lower causality rates per attack and a lower likelihood of using suicide as a tactic were less likely to employ women. Additionally it was found that groups with more spatial dispersion of attacks were more likely to employ women in attacks.
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Details
- Title
- Women in terrorism
- Creators
- Nathaniel Tonks Boehme
- Contributors
- Jennifer Schwartz (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525138001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis