Vocabulary Chapter 14 Flashcards
Consensus Definition
A definition constructed after reviewing and extracting the most important concepts from other definitions. Usually involves surveying experts’ definitions of particular concepts and then abstracting the most frequent referents.
Ideology
A way of thinking/a deeply held belief.
Left-Wing Terrorism
Leftists typically integrate a distrust of government, concern for social class, desire to abolish or strictly control private property, want to alleviate oppression and discrimination, and the belief that governments support and elite group (especially capitalists) who benefit from the labor of the working class.
Weathermen/Weather Underground
American based left-wing terrorist group that formed out of the Students for A Democratic Society. Prominent between 1968-1973.
Bombed Military Recruiting Centers
The US capital and the office of the California Dept of Corrections. During the 80s, most had renounced terrorism, were arrested and/or had died.
Crime Reporting Wave
A sudden rise in the reporting of crime by the news media. May or may not bear a relationship to actual crime.
Schmid’s Definition of Terrorism
Terrorism is a method of combat in which random or symbolic victims serve as targets of violence. State of chronic fear (terror). Targets of demands (e.g., a government). Targets of Attention (e.g., public opinion)
Dept of Homeland Security
Major federal agency created after 9/11 to respond to the threat of terrorism and other emergency matters.
Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)
Branch of the US Dept for Justice. Responsible of terrorism related investigation in the US, especially of domestic terrorism.
Patriot Act
The legislation significantly enabled the US government to search its citizens email communications and thus reduced constitutionally mandated provisions on Americans right to privacy.
Proximity to Attack
How geographically close an individual is to a terroist event.
Threat of the Week Syndrome
Rumors fostered by news and social media and government entities about terrorist threats that have the principle effect of initially scaring the public then later distrusting them. Similar to the little boy who cried wolf story.
