Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice: The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism

Editors: LaFree, Gary and Freilich, Joshua D.
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $202.75
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $304.13
ISBN: 978-1-11-892395-5
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count: 31
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism features a collection of essays that represent the most recent criminological research relating to the origins and evolution of, along with responses to, terrorism, from a criminological perspective.

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Table of Contents

  • Notes on Contributors
  • Part I: Introduction: Bringing Criminology into the Study of Terrorism
  • Part II: Etiology
  • 1. The Etiology of Radicalization
  • 2. Psychological Factors in Radicalization
  • 3. What Makes Them Do It? Individual‐Level Indicators of Extremist Outcomes
  • 4. The Terrorists’ Planning Cycle
  • 5. Group‐level Predictors of Political and Religiously Motivated Violence
  • 6. Country‐level Predictors of Terrorism
  • Part III: Theories
  • 7. General Strain Theory and Terrorism
  • 8. Social Learning Theory and Becoming a Terrorist
  • 9. The Situational Approach to Terrorism
  • 10. Victimization Theories and Terrorism
  • 11. Analyzing Radicalization and Terrorism
  • Part IV: Research Methods
  • 12. Measuring Terrorism
  • 13. Paradigmatic Case Studies and Prison Ethnography
  • 14. Social Network Analysis and Terrorism
  • 15. Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Terrorism and Insurgency
  • 16. Applying Multilevel Models to Terrorism Research
  • 17. Methodological Advances in the Study of Terrorism
  • 18. Interrupted Time Series Analysis in the Study of Terrorism
  • Part V: Types of Terrorism
  • 19. Far Right Terrorism in the United States
  • 20. Left‐wing Terrorism
  • 21. Assessing Aerial Hijacking as a Terrorist Tactic
  • 22. Evolution of Suicide Attacks
  • 23. Terrorist Assassinations
  • Part VI: Terrorism and Other Types of Crime
  • 24. Organized Crime and Terrorism
  • 25. Similar from a Distance
  • 26. Studying Extremist Homicide in the United States
  • 27. Financial Terror
  • 28. An Empirical Analysis of Maritime Terrorism Using the Global Terrorism Database
  • Part VII: Countering Terrorism
  • 29. Empowering Communities to Prevent Violent Extremism
  • 30. Terrorist Plots the United States
  • 31. The Ten Commandments for Effective Counterterrorism
  • 32. Prosecuting Terrorism post‐9/11
  • 33. Prisons
  • 34. The Individual Risk Assessment of Terrorism
  • 35. Legislative Efforts to Prevent Eco‐terrorist Attacks
  • 36. On the Relevance of Cyber Criminological Research in the Design of Policies and Sophisticated Security Solutions against Cyberterrorism Events