Faces of Terrorism

David Canter is Professor of Psychology and Director of the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, and founding editor of the Wiley Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. He has worked with police forces all over the world on 'profiling', which led to the emergence of Investigative Psychology. This has included unique studies of terrorists. Since 1986, Professor Canter has contributed to over 150 investigations of many different kinds of crimes around the world, and was recently awarded a BPS Honorary Fellowship. He has also written two award-winning books, Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer (1995) and Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling (2003).

"Terrorism changes so rapidly that everything published from an academic viewpoint is almost always two years out of date .... so it is no small achievement that this book largely succeeds in what it sets out to do". (Human Givens, 2010)

• List of Contributors viiPreface xiii1. The Multi-Faceted Nature of Terrorism: An Introduction 1David Canter2. From Naïvety to Insurgency: Becoming a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland 19Neil Ferguson and Mark Burgess3. The Rhetorical Foundation of Militant Jihad 35Sudhanshu Sarangi and David Canter4. Case Study – The Puzzling Case (from a Western Perspective) of Lone Terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi 63Clive Williams5. The Primacy of Grievance as a Structural Cause of Oppositional Political Terrorism: Comparing Al Fatah, FARC, and PIRA 75Jeffrey Ian Ross6. Case Study – The 17th November Group: Europe’s Last Revolutionary Terrorists 97George Kassimeris7. Terrorism and Organized Crime: A Theoretical Perspective 123Dipak K. Gupta, John Horgan and Alex P. Schmid8. Terrorist Networks and Small Group Psychology 137Sam Mullins9. Case Study – Youth Gangs and Terrorism in Chechnya: Recruitment, Activities and Networks 151Michael Vishnevetsky10. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend 169Kevin Borgeson and Robin Valeri11. The Business of Kidnap for Ransom 189Everard Phillips12. Case Study – Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya: Authoritarian Leadership in the Caucasus 209John Russell13. From 7/7 to 8/10: Media Framing of Terrorist Incidents in the United States and United Kingdom 227Mary Brinson and Michael Stohl14. Cyberterrorism: The Emerging Worldwide Threat 245Amanda M. Sharp Parker15. Disengaging from Terrorism 257John Horgan16. De-radicalization and the Staircase from Terrorism 277Fathali M. MoghaddamIndex 293