The Faces of Terrorism Multidisciplinary Perspectives

by Canter, David V.

• ISBN13: 9780470753804
• ISBN10: 0470753803
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-05
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

An international, multi-disciplinary team explores the many different facets of terrorism, investigating what it means to be a terrorist and what terrorism means for society.Gets closer to the perspectives of terrorists - their views, how their acts are conceptualized by the public and by national leaders, and how this knowledge can be put to useBrings together international experts from psychology, psychiatry, law and policing under the guidance of one of the world's foremost forensic psychology experts in David Canter Public interest in terrorism has increased massively in the wake of 9/11, while academic interest has led to the development of new MSc programmes in terrorism studies

Author Biography

David Canter is Professor of Psychology and Director of the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, and founding editor of the Wiley Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. He has worked with police forces all over the world on 'profiling', which led to the emergence of Investigative Psychology. This has included unique studies of terrorists. Since 1986, Professor Canter has contributed to over 150 investigations of many different kinds of crimes around the world, and was recently awarded a BPS Honorary Fellowship. He has also written two award-winning books, Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer (1995) and Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling (2003).

Table of Contents

The Multi-Facetted Nature of Terrorism: An Introduction

From Naïvety to Insurgency: Becoming a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland

The Rhetorical Foundation of Militant

Case study: The Puzzling Case (from a Western Perspective) of Lone Terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi

The Primacy of Grievance as A Structural Cause Of Oppositional Political Terrorism: Comparing Al Fatah, Farc, and Pira

Case Study: The 17^th November Group: Europe's Last Revolutionary Terrorists.

Terrorism and Organized Crime: A Theoretical Perspective

Terrorist Networks and Small Group Psychology

Case Study: Youth Gangs and Terrorism in Chechnya: Recruitment, Activities and Networks

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

The Business of Kidnap for Ransom

Case Study: Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya: Authoritarian Leadership in the Caucasus

From 7/7 to 8/10: Media Framing of Terrorist Incidents in the United States and United Kingdom

Cyberterrorism: The Emerging Worldwide Threat

Disengaging from Terrorism

De-radicalization and the Staircase from Terrorism

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