SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Psychopathology, Strategic Thinking, Relative Deprivation
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Chapter 3: explaining suicide bombers: from karbala to mekhola. Suicide attacks were institutionalized as a technique of collective violence in the modern. In the early years of the twenty-first century, israel, the west bank, and gaza became the region of the world with the highest frequency of, and the highest per capita death toll due to, suicide bombing: explanations. Lance corporal eddie difranco was the only survivor of the 1983 suicide attack on the. Us marine barracks in beirut who saw the face of the bomber; claimed the attacker looked straight at him and smiled. Many westerners upon hearing this would automatically assume these kind of people are deranged and abnormal, such claims made without any supporting data . However once interviews were conducted with prospective suicide bombers and biographies of successful suicide bombers were reconstructed, it was clear that they did not have a higher rate of psychopathology than the general population.