Bothwell, Ashleigh2018-09-112018-09-112018http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/23778Terrorism is a growing concern of the 21st century but is it an increasing phenomenon? This study examines the trends in frequency of terrorism events throughout the United States from 1999-2011 compiled in the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). Drawing on 2000 and 2010 decennial census data and using previous methods from criminology and homicide literature, this research will determine whether certain city-level structural variables are correlated with higher frequencies of terrorism events. This unique approach to analyzing terrorism events introduced a new perspective and found correlations related to criminological literature.Social sciencesCensus dataCity-levelCriminologyStructural analysisTerrorismThesis10512993402018-07-23en