ISBN: 0553114581
Godina izdanja: 1978
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Frederick J. Hacker - Crusaders, Criminals, Crazies: Terror and Terrorism in Our Time
Bantam, 1978
395 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

The fear of being a victim of apparently irrational murder is more widespread today than ever before. This is not to say that such crimes are more prevalent now than in the past; however, coverage by the media has had a dramatic impact upon the impersonal audience. Many persons feel that each venture out into the public carries with it the risk of destruction from some source beyond their personal control. Crusaders, Criminals, Crazies: Terror and Terrorism in Our Time is significant if only because it attempts to give some order to this apparent chaos. The fact that it succeeds so well may give us hope of a more rational world situation and of today’s particular crisis. After discussing the similarities and differences between terror and terrorism, Hacker presents a theoretical analysis of such diverse personalities as Idi Amin, Patty Hearst, and Charles Manson; and groups such as organized crime, the Black September organization, and West Germany’s intellectual terrorists. He divides terrorists into three groups-the political terrorists, the patently criminal, and the emotionally disturbed-thus, the alliterative title of his book, Crusaders, Criminals, Crazies. By examining each group’s psychological and anticipatory behaviors and its responses, Hacker finds a pattern of reasoning characteristic of each type of terrorist group. The author’s premise, developed in the first section of the book, is an impressive
foundation for the succeeding discussion of terrorism. Hacker states:

Terror, which is inflicted from above, is the manufacture and spread of fear by dictators, governments and bosses. It is the attempt of the powerful to exert control through intimidation. Terrorism, which is imposed from below, is the manufacture and spread of fear by rebels, revolutionaries and protestors.

Harvey Schlossberg

Contents:
The terroristic enterprise
Terrorists with a cause
Crusader and anticrusader beliefs
Blurred distinctions
Poor devils
Rape of the mind
The Hearst case
Confrontations and negotiations
Contrasting solutions
American approaches
Let`s make a deal
Terror and terrorism revisited