HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE SUPPLY OF HOME-GROWN ISLAMIC TERRORISTS IN THE UK

Yener Altunbas and John Thornton

No 9001, Working Papers from Bangor Business School, Prifysgol Bangor University (Cymru / Wales)

Abstract: We compare the characteristics of 77 convicted home-grown Islamic terrorists in the UK to a representative sample of 858 UK Muslims. UK Muslims are more likely to be convicted of terrorism if they are better educated and young, which accords with findings from recent research on the behaviour of Muslims in the US. Other predictors of UK Muslims being convicted of terror ism are employment, marital status, citizenship, and ethnic origin.

Keywords: : Terrorism; Home-grown terrorism; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H56 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-12
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