The psychology of terrorism / John Horgan.

Author
Horgan, John, 1974- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Revised and updated second edition.
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
xxii, 184 pages ; 24 cm.

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"The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based research to date not only illustrates the lack of any identifiable psychopathology in terrorists, but demonstrates how frighteningly 'normal' and unremarkable in psychological terms are those who engage in terrorist activity. By producing a clearer map of the processes that impinge upon the individual terrorist, a different type of terrorist psychology emerges, one which has clearer implications for efforts at countering and disrupting violent extremism in today's world."--back cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Psychological warfare
  • Understanding terrorism
  • Terrorist minds?
  • Involvement
  • Engagement
  • Disengagement
  • Towards a science of terrorist behaviour.
ISBN
  • 9780415698023 (pbk.)
  • 0415698022 (pbk.)
  • 9780415698009 (harback)
  • 0415698006 (harback)
LCCN
2014000799
OCLC
869141207
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