Psychological Rehabilitation for Ideology-Based Terrorism Offenders

Terrorism, Ideology and Target Selection∗

How do ideological motivations influence terrorists’ choice of targets? While the ideological determinants of target selection have been the topic of anedoctal conjecture, no rigorous empirical work has been done to answer this question. Furthermore, no research has addressed the role of ideology in terrorist decision-making under strategic constraints. To address this gap in the literature, I ...

Psychological Warfare and Terrorism

This brief article demonstrates that there are common psychological principles that can be effectively and directly applied to illustrate the utility of terrorist activities. One key contention is that terrorism should be considered the pinnacle of strategic behaviors within any protracted campaign emphasizing psychological warfare. A variety of mechanisms and concepts are utilized to make this...

Psychological Operations and Terrorism: The Digital Domain

Psychological processes and "the staircase to terrorism".

was killed on March 8, 2005, he also signaled his intention to have a dialogue with Vladimir Putin. Islamic fundamentalist terrorists or messianic terrorists like bin Laden and alZarqawi have a different agenda: to eliminate any political system that does not embrace Islam as the “only true religion . . . and [accept] that all other religions and civilizations [are] barbarian, evil, and animal-...

The Effectiveness of Support and Rehabilitation Services for Women Offenders

There is a large body of research which suggests that support, rehabilitation and supervision programs can help offenders to reduce recidivism. The effectiveness of services is, however, dependent on the extent to which the workers who deliver them comply with „what works‟ principles and practices. Most of this research has been conducted with men and this study examines the extent to which the...