Political Assassinations by Jews

Nachman Ben-Yehuda is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of The Politics and Morality of Deviance: Moral Panics, Drug Abuse, Deviant Science, and Reversed Stigmatization, also published by SUNY Press.

The fact that nearly all of the assassinations studied were the work of an organization and not a lone individual has momentous implications — both comparatively and for criminological theory. The contrast with what's known about criminal homicide/conventional murder is worthwhile." — Erich Goode, State University of New York at Stony Brook"This book is grounded in a theoretical perspective that is emerging as an extremely important contemporary approach to deviance, largely as a result of the author's work in the area." — Ronald A. Farrell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Acknowledgments List of Cases Introduction Part 1: Theoretical Background and Methodology Chapter 1 Theoretical Orientation, Plan of the Book and Main Findings Chapter 2 Political Assassinations: Theoretical Background Chapter 3 Methodology and Research Experience Part 2: Actual Cases Chapter 4 Historical Background Chapter 5 Political Assassinations by Jews in the Bible, The Sicariis, and in Europe Chapter 6 Political Assassinations by Jews in Palestine between 1882-1918—The Turkish Period Chapter 7 Political Assassinations by Jews in Palestine between 1919-1948—The British Period Chapter 8 Political Assassinations by Jews in Israel between 1949-1988—The Israeli Period Chapter 9 Political Executions Chapter 10 Political Assassinations, Terror, and Tangential Cases Part 3: Analysis, Discussion, and Summary Chapter 11 The Criminological Pattern of Political Assassinations in a Comparative Perspective Chapter 12 Political Assassinations as Rhetorical Devices: Patterns, Reasons, and Interpretations Chapter 13 Integrative Summary Notes Appendix Bibliography Index