Terrorist and victim: Psychiatric and physiological approaches from a social science perspective
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Terrorism
- Vol. 8 (1) , 1-32
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10576108608435592
Abstract
This paper reviews physiological and psychiatric approaches to the study of terrorism from a social science perspective. First the paper reviews psychiatric studies of terrorism. Next, a physiological approach is used to develop an individual‐level model of terrorist contagion. The effects of terrorism on its immediate victims are considered next, followed by a discussion of the possibility of panic among the general public resulting from terrorist acts. Finally, the policy and theoretical considerations raised by the physiological and psychiatric approaches are discussed.Keywords
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