Abstract:Are terrorists like gang members? Terrorists commit crimes, primarily murder and assault. Gang members also commit crimes, including murder and assault. Gang members are more likely to commit a wider ...Are terrorists like gang members? Terrorists commit crimes, primarily murder and assault. Gang members also commit crimes, including murder and assault. Gang members are more likely to commit a wider variety of crimes (Klein, 1971, 1995; Spergel, 1995). As Rosenfeld (2002, p. 1) notes, many criminologists bear only a "grudging acceptance of terrorism" as a subject of study by criminology. Gang researchers, including this author, have balked at any connection between terrorism and gang crime, because the prospect flies in the face of what we already know about gangs. In particular, there is a belief among many of us that what is most important about gangs was already said by Frederic Thrasher (1927). Research on gangs has a long academic tradition. To propose a relationship between gangs and terrorism is considered by some as an encroachment on that tradition.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-02-07
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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