rborum's sex-offenders [47 articles]

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Author Role: Ed; Call Number: (E) Members of the Baader-Meinhof group call themselves revolutionaries and Marxist-Leninists, but prefer the term Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). - To comprehend the reasons for political terrorism in Germany, one must examine the peculiarities of the German situation. - But the various terrorist groups have neither a common philosophy nor any kind of unified structure. Their most important organization is the so-called Red Army Faction (RAF). Its hard core consists of approximately forty members

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Call Number: (E) Authors Abstract: This paper reviews physiological and psychiatric approaches to the study of terrorism from a social science perspective. First the paper reviews psychiatric studies of terrorism. Next, a physiological approach is used to develop an individual level model of terrorist contagion. The effects of terrorism on its immediate victims are considered next, followed by a discussion of the possibility of panic among the general public resulting from terrorist acts. Finally, the policy and theoretical considerations raised by

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A review of the research on the motivations and behaviors of bombers is presented. The methodology consisted of a computer search of eight databases, book reviews, and telephonic interviews with local and federal law enforcement. The data were then compared to the substantial research on psychopathy. The authors conclude that a federally funded research effort is necessary, and should incorporate various structured interviews, history gathering, and psychological and physiological tests of incarcerated bombers, theoretically guided by the concordance between the known ...

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Call Number: (E) Authors Abstract: A review of the research on the motivations and behaviors of bombers is presented. The methodology consisted of a computer search of eight databases, book reviews, and telephonic interviews with local and federal law enforcement. The data were then compared to the substantial research on psychopathy. The authors conclude that a federally funded research effort is necessary, and should incorporate various structured interviews, history gathering, and psychological and physiological tests of incarcerated bombers, theoretically guided by

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This paper is the second in a series of two papers. In Part I, the first paper, the author reviewed the influence on the development of socially sanctioned violence of psychodynamics of group psychology and mass psychology, the regressive pull of ideologies, personality features of social and political leadership, and historical trauma-and social crises. In this Part II, the author explores, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the dehumanization processes related to fundamentalist ideologies and terrorism. ...

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Call Number: (E) We approach the psychology of the torturer and the executioner, the dynamics of total 'deobjectalization' described by Green (1993), the characteristics of the 'anal universe' described by Chasseguet-Smirgel, the dynamics of the total identification with a violence fundamentalist ideology described by Dicks, and the characteristics of absolute social power described y Sofsky. Chasseguet-Smirgel has described the perverse 'anal universe' of patients with severe narcissistic pathology, which I have referred to as the syndrome of malignant narcissism. Unconsciously, they

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Call Number: This early work by psychiatrist David Hubbard attempts to apply a psychoanalytic understanding to illuminate the psyche of the skyjacker. In fairness, this is one of the first psychological explorations of terroristic behavior; it was written during a time when psychoanalytic theory was more dominant in the psychiatric community; it does include some systematic analysis from small samples (albeit limited); and he leads with the following disclaimer: “It must be made clear that the conclusions I have drawn are

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Call Number: (E)Child units have featured prominently in international and internal conflicts in recent years, serving in both state and non-state forces in countries such as Liberia, Camobodia, Sudan, Guatemala, and Myanmar. They featured in at least a third of the 50 odd internal conflicts that were ongoing in 1977, most of which have continued into 1988 and many with increasing intensity.-The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) highlighted the Sri Lankan rebel group’s practice of aiming its specifically at schoolchildren. -The

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Discusses the childhood origins of Islamic terrorism, proposing that the roots of terrorism lie not in this or that American foreign policy error, but in the extremely abusive families of the terrorists. Children who grow up to be Islamic terrorists are products of a misogynist, fundamentalist system that often segregates the family into two separate areas: the men's area and the women's area. As girls grow up in these families, they are usually treated as polluted beings. Often battered and mutilated, ...

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Call Number: (E) The roots of terrorism lie not in this or that American foreign policy error, but in the extremely abusive families of the terrorists. -Global battle by terrorists against liberal Western values. In order to understand this new battle, it would be useful to know what makes a terrorist, what developmental life histories they share that can help us see why they want to kill "American infidels" and themselves - so we can apply our efforts to removing the