EditorialSuicide Terrorism as a Socially Approved Form of SuicideAdam LankfordAdam Lankford Department of Criminal Justice, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:December 29, 2010https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000073PDFView Full Text ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit SectionsMoreReferences Arnautovska, U. , Grad, O. T. (2010). Attitudes toward suicide in the adolescent population. Crisis, 31, 22–29. First citation in articleLink, Google Scholar Beautrais, A. L. (2006). Suicide in Asia. Crisis, 27, 55–57. First citation in articleLink, Google Scholar Charny, I. W. (2007). Fighting suicide bombing: A worldwide campaign for life. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International. First citation in articleGoogle Scholar Hjelmeland, H. , Akotia, C. S. , Owens, V. , Knizek, B. L. , Nordvik, H. , Schroeder, R. , Kinyanda, E. (2008). Self-reported suicidal behavior and attitudes toward suicide and suicide prevention among psychology students in Ghana, Uganda, and Norway. Crisis, 29, 20–31. First citation in articleLink, Google Scholar Hoffman, B. (2006). Inside terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press. First citation in articleGoogle Scholar Lankford, A. (2010). Do suicide terrorists exhibit clinically suicidal risk factors? A review of initial evidence and call for future research. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 15, 334–340. First citation in articleCrossref, Google Scholar Leenaars, A. A. , Maris, R. W. , Takahashi, Y. (1997). Suicide: Individual, cultural, international perspectives. New York: Guilford. First citation in articleGoogle Scholar Merari, A. , Diamant, I. , Bibi, A. , Broshi, Y. , Zakin, G. (2010). Personality characteristics of “self martyrs”/“suicide bombers,” and organizers of suicide attacks. Terrorism and Political Violence, 22, 87–101. First citation in articleCrossref, Google Scholar Pew Research Center. (2009). Support for suicide bombing. Retrieved from pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=19&survey=10&response=Often/sometimes%20justified. First citation in articleGoogle Scholar Pinguet, M. (1993). Voluntary death in Japan. Cambridge: Polity Press. First citation in articleGoogle Scholar Post, J. M. , Ali, F. , Henderson, S. , Shanfield, S. , Victoroff, J. , Weine, S. (2009). The psychology of suicide terrorism. Psychiatry, 72, 13–31. First citation in articleCrossref Medline, Google Scholar Robins, A. , & Fiske, A. (2009). Explaining the relation between religiousness and reduced suicidal behavior: Social support rather than specific beliefs. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 39, 386–395. First citation in articleCrossref Medline, Google Scholar Sato, R. , Kawanishi, C. , Yamada, T. , Hasegawa, H. , Ikeda, H. , Kato, D. , ... Hirayasu, Y. (2006). Knowledge and attitude toward suicide among medical students in Japan. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 60, 558–562. First citation in articleCrossref Medline, Google Scholar Stack, S. , & Wasserman, I. (1992). The effect of religion on suicide ideology: An analysis of the networks perspective. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 31, 457–466. First citation in articleCrossref, Google Scholar Takahashi, Y. (1997). Culture and suicide: From a Japanese psychiatrist’s perspective. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 27, 137–145. First citation in articleMedline, Google Scholar Townsend, E. (2007). Suicide terrorists: Are they suicidal? Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 37, 35–49. First citation in articleCrossref Medline, Google Scholar World Health Organization. (2003). Suicide rates. Retrieved from www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/. First citation in articleGoogle ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byThe morality of martyrdom and the stigma of suicide27 August 2014 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 4Evidence that suicide terrorists are suicidal: Challenges and empirical predictions27 August 2014 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 4A suicide-based typology of suicide terrorists: Conventional, coerced, escapist and indirect21 May 2012 | Security Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1A Psychological Autopsy of 9/11 Ringleader Mohamed Atta3 December 2011 | Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 2From Columbine to Palestine: A comparative analysis of rampage shooters in the United States and volunteer suicide bombers in the Middle EastAggression and Violent Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 2 Volume 31Issue 6November 2010ISSN: 0227-5910eISSN: 2151-2396 InformationCrisis (2010), 31, pp. 287-289 https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000073.© 2010Hogrefe PublishingPDF download