The Faces of Terrorism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives / Edition 1

by David V. Canter

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470753804
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/05/2010
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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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Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Preface xiii

1. The Multi-Faceted Nature of Terrorism: An Introduction 1
David Canter

2. From Naïvety to Insurgency: Becoming a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland 19
Neil Ferguson and Mark Burgess

3. The Rhetorical Foundation of Militant Jihad 35
Sudhanshu Sarangi and David Canter

4. Case Study – The Puzzling Case (from a Western Perspective) of Lone Terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi 63
Clive Williams

5. The Primacy of Grievance as a Structural Cause of Oppositional Political Terrorism: Comparing Al Fatah, FARC, and PIRA 75
Jeffrey Ian Ross

6. Case Study – The 17th November Group: Europe’s Last Revolutionary Terrorists 97
George Kassimeris

7. Terrorism and Organized Crime: A Theoretical Perspective 123
Dipak K. Gupta, John Horgan and Alex P. Schmid

8. Terrorist Networks and Small Group Psychology 137
Sam Mullins

9. Case Study – Youth Gangs and Terrorism in Chechnya: Recruitment, Activities and Networks 151
Michael Vishnevetsky

10. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend 169
Kevin Borgeson and Robin Valeri

11. The Business of Kidnap for Ransom 189
Everard Phillips

12. Case Study – Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya: Authoritarian Leadership in the Caucasus 209
John Russell

13. From 7/7 to 8/10: Media Framing of Terrorist Incidents in the United States and United Kingdom 227
Mary Brinson and Michael Stohl

14. Cyberterrorism: The Emerging Worldwide Threat 245
Amanda M. Sharp Parker

15. Disengaging from Terrorism 257
John Horgan

16. De-radicalization and the Staircase from Terrorism 277
Fathali M. Moghaddam

Index 293

Editorial Reviews

"Terrorism changes so rapidly that everything published from an academic viewpoint is almost always two years out of date .... so it is no small achievement that this book largely succeeds in what it sets out to do". (Human Givens, 2010)

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