A Sociopsychiatric Interpretation of Terrorism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9768154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franco Ferracuti (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 463 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-140 |
| Publication date | 1982-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716282463001011 |
| OpenAlex | W2004517025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 10 |
Definitions of terrorism are imprecise and difficult. Even the units of analysis are not uniform, and existing typologies are merely descriptive. Forecasting, however, particularly middle-and long-range, would improve if we could provide a valid theoretical formulation. This would have to be interdisciplinary and should encompass both the idioverse of the terrorist and the universe of the terrorist events. Psychiatric contributions are few and they lack general validity. Violence and death wishes, which translate into fantasy war, are generally accepted characteristics. Four theories are briefly discussed: (1) frustration-aggression, (2) unbalance of the social system, (3) Olson's rational choice, and (4) Marxist theory. A subcultural approach would allow consideration of group and individual factors and would permit some valid policy choices
Aggression · Criminology · Economics · Epistemology · Fantasy · Interpretation (philosophy · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rationality · Sociology · Terrorism · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
When terrorists do the talking
War Against Terrorism
Understanding the psychological aspects of the radicalisation process
Between rap and jihad
Assessing the behavioural trajectories of terrorists
Toward An Integrated Behavioral Framework for Analyzing Terrorism
Recruitment or enlistment? Individual integration into the Turkish Hezbollah
A model of the psychological causes of oppositional political terrorism
Terrorism
Italian terrorism and society, 1940s–1980s
Terrorist and victim
The international world as some terrorists have seen it
The Mind of the Terrorist
The measurement of delinquency
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
The Politics of Assassination
International Terrorism and World Security
Revolutionary Change
The Logic of Collective Action
A Poisson model of incidents of international terrorism in the United States
The relation between terrorism and domestic civil disorders
Selected Works (in Two Volumes)
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2021 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |