FBI Report On Lone-Attacker Terrorism: 10 Key takeaways

By Katherine Kuhlman, PsyD

Yesterday, the FBI released a report on Lone Attacker Terrorism. The BAU examined 52 lone offender terrorist attacks between in 1972 and 2015, with the goal being to understand motivating factors, social networks, behavioral characteristics, and more. Lone Attacker Terrorism is really a subset of generalized targeted violence, the difference being that the motivation or injustice is based on ideology. The individuals that carried out these attacks did so outside of any ideological group.
 
You can read the whole report here.

10 Key Takeaways

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