Incitement to Violence and Stochastic Terrorism

Legal, Academic, and Practical Parameters for Researchers and Investigators

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4737037
AutoresMolly Amman (0000-0002-1621-8894), Reid Meloy (Schlumberger (Ireland), autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume36
Fascículo2
Páginas234-245
Data de publicação2024-02-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTerrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09546553.2022.2143352
OpenAlexW4311943487
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

In the U.S., legal incitement is generally understood as speech that is intended to incite or produce imminent lawless action, and is likely, in fact, to do so. It is an a old construct extending back to ancient Greece. In contrast, stochastic terrorism is a relatively new academic term describing an unpredicted act of targeted violence stemming from political demagoguery. Both constructs are hard problems in a liberal democratic society. How do we think about such issues of speech involving both persuasion and influence that may lead to intentional harm of others? In furtherance of understanding such historical attacks and those that may unfold in the future, we juxtapose the concepts of stochastic terrorism and incitement to violence, and define the legal, academic, and practical parameters of these concepts for researchers and investigators who are not formally trained in the law. There are points of both convergence and divergence regarding these terms, both legally and psychologically, which may help clarify their application to academic research, legal opinion, and other real world problems

Criminology · Democracy · Harm · Incitement · Law and economics · Persuasion · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · Computer Science · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence