POLITICAL IMPACT OF ASSASSINATIONS AND ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS

• NCJ Number: 41272
• Author(s): W C SPRAGENS
• Date Published: 1976
• Length: 49 pages
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: PREPARED FOR SYMPOSIUM ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE, GLASSBORO STATE COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY, APRIL, 1976

Annotation

THIS PAPER REVIEWS TWENTIENTH CENTURY POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ASSASSINATIONS AND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS IN AMERICA TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR IMPACT ON BOTH PUBLIC OPINION AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT.

Abstract

THE AUTHOR STATES THAT THE IMPACT OF ASSASSINATIONS ON THE MORE SECURE, BASIC INSTITUTIONS OF OUR SOCIETY IS LESS LIKELY TO BE OF A LONG-TERM DISRUPTIVE NATURE....EB