Understanding Terrorism - Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues

Understanding Terrorism, Fourth Edition, continues tooffer a multidisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of contemporary terrorism that helps readers develop the knowledge and skills they need to critically assess terrorism in general and terrorist incidents in particular. The Fourth Edition presents new, updated theories, cases, and incidentsas well as new photographs, updated tables, and enhanced graphics. Features and Benefits:Comprehensive Coverage: The book offers a broad multidisciplinary examination of contemporary terrorism that helps contextualize terrorism for students. Its thorough exploration of theory and history from a wide variety of perspectives ensures that readers develop a deep understanding of current state of terrorism.Accessible Style: The author explains theory and provides in-depth analysis in an accessible and engaging manner that helps readers to develop the knowledge and skills they need.Opening Viewpoints: At the beginning of each chapter these boxes present relevant examples of theories and themes that will be discussed in the following chapter grabbing readers attention and drawing them into the material that follows.Chapter in Perspective: Chapters incorporate focused presentations in special interest boxes that explore people, events, organizations, and movements that are relevant to the subject matter of each chapter.such as the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the narco-terrorist events in Mexico.Discussion Boxes: Each chapter concludes with discussion boxes that highlight controversial issues and pose challenging questions which stimulate critical thinking and debate.Comprehensive Tables: There is more explanatory material than in comparable books to help students understand the data and information presented in the tables.Wide-ranging Illustration Program: A variety of photos, charts, graphs and maps help students appreciate and understand the events and people covered in the book.Strong support package: More expansive than any other competitive title

List of contents

About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Rationale
Part I. Terrorism: A Conceptual Review
Chapter 1. Terrorism: First Impressions
Chapter 2. The Nature of teh Beast: Defining Terrorism
Chapter 3. Beginnings: The Causes of Terrorism
Part II. The Terrorists
Chapter 4. Terror From Above: Terrorism by the State
Chapter 5. Terror From Below: Terrorism by Dissidents
Chapter 6. Violence in the Name of the Faith: Religious Terrorism
Chapter 7. Violent Ideologies: Terrorism From the Left and Right
Chapter 8. Terrorist Spillovers: International Terrorism
Chapter 9. Emerging Terrorist Environments: Gender-Selective Political Violence and Criminal Dissident Terrorism
Part III. The Terrorist Trade
Chapter 10. Tools of the Trade: Tactics and Targets of Terrorists
Chapter 11. The Information Battleground: Terrorist Violence and the Role of the Media
Chapter 12. The American Case: Terrorism in the United States
Part IV. Counterterrorism and Securing the Homeland
Chapter 13. Counterterrorism: The Options
Chapter 14. A New Era: Homeland Security
Chapter 15. What Next?: The Future of Terrorism
Appendix A: Map References
Glossary
Index

About the author

C. Augustus "Gus" Martin is Assistant Vice President for Faculty Affairs at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where he is also the former chair of the Department of Public Administration & Public Policy. He has served on the faculty of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, where he was an Administration of Justice professor. His research and professional interests are terrorism and extremism, juvenile justice, administration of justice, and fair housing. He has served as a panelist for university and community symposia and interviews on the subjects of administration of justice, terrorism, and fair housing. He has also been a consultant to government and private agencies. Prior to joining academia, he was a "floor" legislative assistant to Congressman Charles B. Rangel of New York and Special Counsel to the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, he served as managing attorney for the Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, where he was also director of a program created under a federal consent decree to desegregate public and assisted housing.

Product details

• Authors: C. (Clarence) Augustus (Gus) Martin, C. Augustus Martin, C. Gus Martin, Clarence Augustus Martin, Gus Martin
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9781452205823
• ISBN: 978-1-4522-0582-3
• No. of pages: 616
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories