Terrorism as security problem and social deviance

Deviance as a System-Identification Problem

This paper was presented at the Conference on Strategies of Longitudinal Research on Drug Use, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1976. The conference proceedings were supposed to be published by Denise Kandel who organized the conference, but that didn’t happen. In 1989, after more than a decade of waiting, I decided to revise the paper and see it into print, but after some minor editing I stopped, feelin...

Social Deviance

This book is one of a series now being placed upon the market, dealing with b"1 psychiatric ill health and delinquent behaviour as part of a general social disor^ The author, Mr. Wilkins, from his recent position in the Home Office Research U1" was in a unique position to survey both fields. This book contains the product of ̂ fertile brain, whilst visiting the United States recently as a visiti...

Social Inequality , Crime , and Deviance

This chapter examines the role of social inequality in crime and deviance by specifying a social psychological theory of the causal mechanisms by which inequality is associated with crime. We begin by noting that the powerful have more input into the content of criminal law, a point illustrated by the relatively soft penalties for white collar and corporate crimes compared to the harsh penaltie...

HOW TERRORISM WORKS: TERRORISM AS A DISEQUALIZING INPUT TO THE SOCIAL SYSTEM by

Terrorism, Security, and the Threat of Counterterrorism

In America, Britain and Australia the threat of terrorism has been used to justify radical new legislation that gives police and intelligence agencies unprecedented powers to detain and question people believed to have information connected to terrorism. In this paper I explore the nature of the threat of non-state terrorism—threat to national security and the well-being of citizens. I argue th...