The dispossessed

Domestic terror and political extremism in the American heartland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6192546
AutoresWilliam Cook (0000-0002-0642-2103), William J Cook (0000-0002-6732-9471, Westfield State University), Robert J Kelly (0000-0002-6847-4726, City University of New York)
Ano1999
Volume23
Fascículo2
Páginas241-256
Data de publicação1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0192-4036 • E-ISSN: 2157-6475
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01924036.1999.9678642
OpenAlexW1980967516
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas8

Domestic terrorism in the United States is not a phenomenon limited to alien groups at odds with United States foreign policy. The country has bred its own desperate groups who see themselves as victims of political forces that are in profound conflict with traditional cultures and values of rural America. In general, the militia movement is a violent, racist, revolutionary surge aimed at creating an alternative society in which government is decentralized and kept to an absolute minimum. Its strength lies in the Midwestern heartland and in the inter‐mountain areas of western Montana and Idaho. It is also likely that some militias have ties with neo‐Nazi groups, anti‐abortion fanatics and white Christian hate mongers loosely linked with the old Ku Klux Klan. Not since the 1930's has a white supremacist group gained such prominence in American Society

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