22 Publications
2021
The timing of opportunities to prevent mass shootings: a study of mental health contacts, work and school problems, and firearms acquisition.
Lankford, Adam and Silva, Jason R
International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England), vol. 33, (no. 7), pp. 638-652, November 2021. | Journal Article
2020
The Importance of Analyzing Public Mass Shooters Separately from Other Attackers When Estimating the Prevalence of Their Behavior Worldwide
Lankford, Adam
Econ Journal Watch, vol. 17, (no. 1), pp. 40-55, Mar 2020. | Journal Article
2018
Strength in numbers: A survival strategy that helps explain social bonding and commitment
Lankford, Adam
2018
 
Strength in numbers: A survival strategy that helps explain social bonding and commitment.
Lankford, Adam
The Behavioral and brain sciences, vol. 41, pp. e208, January 2018. | Journal Article
2016
Detecting mental health problems and suicidal motives among terrorists and mass shooters.
Lankford, Adam
Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH, vol. 26, (no. 5), pp. 315-321, December 2016. | Journal Article
 
Public Mass Shooters and Firearms: A Cross-National Study of 171 Countries.
Lankford, Adam
Violence and victims, vol. 31, (no. 2), pp. 187-199, 2016. | Journal Article
2014
Evidence that suicide terrorists are suicidal: Challenges and empirical predictions
Lankford, Adam
(pp. 380-393). Aug 2014
 
Evidence that suicide terrorists are suicidal: Challenges and empirical predictions
Lankford, Adam
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 37, (no. 4), pp. 380-393, Aug 2014. | Journal Article
2013
A Comparative Analysis of Suicide Terrorists and Rampage, Workplace, and School Shooters in the United States From 1990 to 2010
Lankford, Adam
Homicide Studies, vol. 17, (no. 3), Aug 2013. | Journal Article
2012
An Analysis of Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military, 2004-2009
Lankford, Adam
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, vol. 14, (no. 2), 2012. | Journal Article
 
A Psychological Autopsy of 9/11 Ringleader Mohamed Atta
Lankford, Adam
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, vol. 27, (no. 2), pp. 150-159, 2012. | Journal Article
2011
Could Suicide Terrorists Actually Be Suicidal
Lankford, Adam
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, pp. 337-366, 2011. | Journal Article
 
From Columbine to Palestine: A Comparative Analysis of Rampage Shooters in the United States and Volunteer Suicide Bombers in the Middle East
Lankford, Adam and Hakim, Nayab
Aggression and Violent Behavior, vol. 16, (no. 2), pp. 98 - 107, 2011. | Journal Article
 
Rehabilitating Terrorists Through Counter-Indoctrination: Lessons Learned From The Saudi Arabian Program
Lankford, Adam and Gillespie, Katherine
International Criminal Justice Review, vol. 21, (no. 2), pp. 118 - 133, 2011. | Journal Article
2010
Assessing the Obama Standard for Interrogations: An Analysis of Army Field Manual 2-22.3
Lankford, Adam
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 33, (no. 1), pp. 20-35, 2010. | Journal Article
 
Do Past U.S. Acts Constitute Terrorism? Implications for Counterterrorism Policy
Lankford, Adam
International Criminal Justice Review, vol. 20, (no. 4), pp. 417 - 435, 2010. | Journal Article
 
Do Suicide Terrorists Exhibit Clinically Suicidal Risk Factors? A Review of Initial Evidence and Call for Future Research
Lankford, Adam
Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, vol. 15, (no. 5), pp. 334 - 340, 2010. | Journal Article
 
Suicide terrorism as a socially approved form of suicide.
Lankford, Adam
Crisis, vol. 31, (no. 6), pp. 287-9, 2010. | Journal Article
2009
Promoting Aggression and Violence at Abu Ghraib: The U.S. Military's Transformation of Ordinary People Into Torturers
Lankford, Adam
Aggression and Violent Behavior, vol. 14, (no. 5), pp. 388 - 395, 2009. | Journal Article
2008
Human killing machines: Systematic indoctrination in Iran, Nazi Germany, Al Qaeda and Abu Ghraib (Dissertation)
Lankford, Adam (2008).
 
Human killing machines: Systematic indoctrination in Iran, Nazi Germany, Al Qaeda and Abu Ghraib (Dissertation)
Lankford, Adam (2008).
 
Human killing machines: Systematic indoctrination in Iran, Nazi Germany, Al Qaeda and Abu Ghraib (Dissertation)
Lankford, Adam (2008).