title: Can self-destructive killers be classified so easily?
abstract: Lankford makes many useful points regarding the myths and shibboleths underlying our understanding of self-destructive killers and suicide bombers. He has collated an impressive data set on such offenders. However, his classification scheme is not built on sufficient evidence to support his proposed discrete categories of conventional, coerced, escapist, and indirect suicide terrorists. It would be straightforward to analyse the data, but it is unlikely that the resulting model would reflect that anticipated.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Family and Forensic Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham NG8 1BB, United Kingdom. Vincent.egan@nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medicine/about/psychiatryandappliedpsychology/people/vincent.egan
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Egan
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*