The Faces Of Terrorism - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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.


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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

* International author team brought together by a high-profile Editor
* Interdisciplinary in nature - brings together experts from psychology, psychiatry, law and policing
* Considers the full cycle from how terrorists view the world to the public perception of terrorist acts
* Facilitates effective responses to terrorism
* Highly topical subject - huge increase in interest in terrorism in recent years (both academic and general public interest)

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).

List of Contributors.


Preface.


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


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





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





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


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


6. Case Study: The 17th November Group - Europe’s Last Revolutionary Terrorists (George Kassimeris).


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