Handbook of Understanding Terrorism: Forensic Social Sciences Case Studies - Hardcover

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Martine Herzog-Evans is a Professor of criminal law and criminology, Reims University, Law faculty, France. She previously taught in Nantes and Paris. Evans has a degree in public law (Paris XI Sceaux, 1983), a certificate in European law (Paris I Sorbonne, 1984), and a Master's (MLL) degree in private international law and international commerce (Paris XI, 1986). She specializes in sentencing, prisons, reentry, and community sentences and measures. She trains CJS practitioners and helps criminal justice agencies develop offender treatment programmes and drug courts. Her current studies pertain to French Drug Court Programmes and Domestic violence.

Dr. Stephen J. Morewitz is President of the consulting firm, Stephen J. Morewitz, Ph.D., & Associates, San Francisco & Tarzana, CA, which was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1988. He is the Founder and President of the Forensic Social Sciences Association. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Justice Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, San Jose State University and is a Lecturer in the Department of Public Health, California State University, East Bay. Dr. Morewitz is a triple-certified forensic social scientist, is the author of thirteen books, and more than 100 other publications. 

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This book examines common theoretical conceptualization of terrorism, including all the following dimensions:

• Macro-criminological theories
• Psycho-criminological models of aggression
• Psycho-criminological models of risk and need (RNR)
• Psychopathology
• Social psychology, particularly in the areas of intergroup relations, identity, need for closure, and, the quest for significance
• Ideological and religious passions and extremism

International in scope, each chapter draws on a combination of these frameworks, exemplified in a collection of case series and studies, to help students, practitioners, and researchers better understand these phenomena.