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2.5 - Terrorism Research

Current Issues and Debates

from Part II - Psychology and Criminal Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2021

By
Margaret A. Wilson
Edited by
Jennifer M. Brown  and
Miranda A. H. Horvath
Jennifer M. Brown
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Miranda A. H. Horvath
Affiliation:
University of Suffolk
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Summary

This chapter sets out the field of terrorism studies and reviews the main issues and research directions that characterise the field today. The history of the discipline is summarised and terrorism and its ‘near neighbour’ hate crime are defined and compared before turning to the developments that have dominated the research agenda over the last ten years.

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TerrorismCounter-TerrorismHate CrimeRadicalisationPolitical Violence
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The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 261 - 278
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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