Adam Lankford on Suicidal Murderers

Mainstream wisdom states that suicide terrorists are rational political operatives, while suicidal rampage shooters are merely mentally disturbed loners, but are these two categories of criminal really that different?

Once again I had an opportunity to speak with Criminology professor Adam Lankford from the University of Alabama. He’s been studying the relationships between depression and terrorism. I began by asking him to make a connection to what might initially appear to be two very differently motivated kind of killer