Terrorismo e economia do crime : uma análise socioeconômica do ISIS, 2013-2019

Abstract

The following project aims to analyze some factors that encourage individuals to join the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, as well as to volunteer in suicide bombing missions for the years 2013-2019 that occurred in Syria and Iraq. This way, a discussion is proposed in the light of the economics of crime for the rationality of choice of these individuals, applying the inductive method of approach. As well as, using statistics data from The Global Terrorism Database to describe the magnitude in numbers of victims and attacks committed in this timeline by this organization. Thus, the results found show that suicide bombers as economic agents when committing a terrorist attack respond to socioeconomic, sociocultural and historical incentives and disincentives such as horizontal inequality, unemployment, discrimination and social alienation. In addition, the data show that the largest number of terrorist attacks committed by the group took place between the years 2014-2016 and for the entire period analyzed, the Islamic State caused 42,505 thousand casualties and left 34,198 injured victims.