Exam 1 Chapters 1-3 Flashcards
Selective terrorism
Targets are selected - not indiscriminate
Criminology in terrorism
Prevention & apprehension
Difference between street criminals & terrorists
Terrorists commit crimes for a cause
Practical behavioral differences
Terrorists:
1. Focus action toward goal
2. Are dedicated to a cause
3. Rarely cooperate w/ LE
4. Tend to attack
5. Strike after careful planning
6. Prepare & rehearse
Research
More successful when looking at militant ideology & concepts that attract followers
Horgan
- Psychological process that leads people to terrorist groups
- Issues that keep them in the group
- Support for people who want to leave
Sageman’s model - 6 steps
- Alienated young man
- Meets other alienated men & form bond
- Groups gravitate toward religion
- Religion interpreted in militant terms
- Militant groups meet terrorist contact
- Militants join terrorists as a group decision
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Destroyed Northwest airliner as it entered US airspace
James W. Von Brunn
Shooting in US Holocaust memorial museum in DC
Omar hammami
Muslim father & Christian father
Embraced violent form of Islam & became a commander in Al shabaab
3 models of terrorism
- Lone wolf
- Small group
3 tactics of insurgencies & guerrilla movements
Narcoterrorism
Terrorists supporting drug operations to finance terrorism
Lone wolf
Person who has particular (religious) ideology but not part of a
group
Most difficult to deter / detain