Paper Info
Title
Analysis of Competing Hypothesis for Investigating Lone Wolf Terrorist
Abstract
One of the most unpredictable forms of terrorism acts are those committed by a single individual, a so-called "lone wolf terrorist". The most difficult part in detecting a lone wolf is that they can come in any size, shape, and ethnicity and represent any ideology. However, there are some characteristic similarities that many lone wolves share. In this paper we identify three different areas where similarities among lone wolves can be found: the background and their behavior, the radicalization process and the terrorist planning cycle. We use an adoption of the analysis of competing hypotheses method where we introduce the notion of template hypotheses. A template hypotheses aims to capture similarities between different lone wolf cases. The hypotheses are continuously developed and cultivated into more detailed hypotheses that are specific for each individual. We outline how a computer-support tool for investigating lone wolf terrorists using this method could be implemented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/EISIC.2011.60
Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
lone wolves share,single individual,lone wolf terrorist,hypotheses method,terrorist planning cycle,template hypothesis,lone wolf,different lone wolf case,characteristic similarity,different area,organizations,psychology,terrorism,internet,planning
Radicalization,Ideology,Terrorism,Criminology,Analysis of competing hypotheses,Ethnic group,Law,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-4406-9
3
0.54
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lisa Kaati114417.65
Pontus Svenson214922.31