RT Article
T1 Looking at terrorism through left realist lenses
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 54
IS 2
SP 171
OP 185
A1 Gibbs, Jennifer C. 1978-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1855135922
AB While terrorism has moved into the spotlight of criminological study, including critical criminology, it has yet to be thoroughly explored from a left realist perspective. Left realism addresses four aspects of crime: causes of offending, impact on the victims, and both official and public responses to crime. A left realist approach to terrorism would argue that similar to those who engage in street crimes, many terrorists are socially or economically disenfranchised young men who become involved in terrorism through connections with similarly situated members of the fringe population, and "get tough" policies on terrorism will backfire. Four propositions of left realist theory organized by DeKeseredy and colleagues are presented and addressed through the extant literature, which offers partial support for a left realist explanation of terrorism.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 183-185
K1 Economic Inequality
K1 Informal Social Control
K1 Political Violence
K1 Relative Deprivation
K1 Terrorist Organization
DO 10.1007/s10611-010-9252-7