The Faces of Terrorism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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David V. Canter
John Wiley & Sons, Dec 17, 2009 - Political Science - 320 pages

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 use
  • Brings together international experts from psychology, psychiatry, law and policing
  • Edited by one of the world's foremost forensic psychology experts, David Canter
 

Contents

Multidisciplinary Perspectives 1 The MultiFaceted Nature of Terrorism An Introduction
1
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 2 From Naïvety to Insurgency Becoming a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland
19
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 3 The Rhetorical Foundation of Militant Jihad
35
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 4 Case study The Puzzling Case from a Western Perspective of Lone Terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi
63
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 5 The Primacy of Grievance a s a Structural Cause of Oppositional Political Terrorism Comparing AlFatah FARC and P...
75
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 6 Case Study The 17th November Group Europes Last Revolutionary Terrorists
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Multidisciplinary Perspectives 7 Terrorism and Organized Crime A Theoretical Perspective
123
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 8 Terrorist Networks and Small Group Psychology
137
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 10 The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
169
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 11 The Business of Kidnap for Ransom
189
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 12 Case Study Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya Authoritarian Leadership in the Caucasus
209
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 13 From 77 to 810 Media Framing of Terrorist Incidents in the United States and United Kingdom
227
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 14 Cyberterrorism The Emerging Worldwide Threat
245
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 15 Disengaging from Terrorism
257
Multidisciplinary Perspectives 16 Deradicalization and the Staircase from Terrorism
277
Multidisciplinary Perspectives Index
293

Multidisciplinary Perspectives 9 Case study Youth Gangs and Terrorism in Chechnya Recruitment Activities and Networks
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About the author (2009)

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).

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