Victims of Terrorism Associations after September 11th and March 11th: Claims, Demands, Responses

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Abstract

This research seeks to describe and explain the claims, needs, activities and goals of 9/11 victims via the New York tri-state area-based terrorist victims movement that arose as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 in New York City, compared to those that arose after 3/11/2004 in Madrid, Spain. This project continues past comparative research on the memorialization of 9/11 and 3/11 (the Madrid bombings in 2004) (Flesher and Barberet, 2011). The purpose of this research is to examine the needs, demands, claims and activities of victims’ associations as they evolve over time, from immediate following the attacks to the present.

Author

• Rosemary Barberet, John Jay College of Criminal Justice