On Recidivism: A Commentary on Altier, Boyle, and Horgan

Marc Sageman

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021, vol. 33, issue 4, 861-867

Abstract: Altier, Boyle, and Horgan claim a 64.6 percent terrorist recidivism rate. However, the unrepresentativeness of their sample, a confusion between the notions of a recidivism base rate and the percentage of recidivists in a sample, and a questionable concept of a global terrorist population undermine their claim.

Date: 2021
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