A Forensic Approach to Political and State Violence

A Forensic Approach to Political and State Violence applies a forensic lens to the study of risk in relation to political and state violence.

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David Crighton is Professor of Forensic Psychology at Durham University, UK. He was previously Acting Chief/Deputy Chief Psychologist at the Ministry of Justice, UK.

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A Forensic Approach to Political and State Violence applies a forensic lens to the study of risk in relation to political and state violence.

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Contents

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Series foreword

Preface

Chapter 1 Aggression and Violence

Violence

Focussing on physical force and physical injury

Violence and aggression

Elements of violence

What violence is not

The importance of good definition

Summary and conclusions

Chapter 2 Defining political violence

Terrorism, insurgency, guerrilla war and hybrid war

Legal definitions of terrorism

Problems with legal definitions of terrorism

Who should define terrorism?

Other approaches to definition

Summary and conclusions

Chapter 3 State violence and terrorism

Long term tensions in the idea of the state

Misunderstanding the state

The future of the state

International law and state terrorism

State terrorism and state violence

Difficulties identifying state terrorism

Possible impacts of human rights on state violence

Summary and conclusions

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Chapter 4 Responses to politically motivated violence - the UK example

Politically motivated violence and political accountability

Some legislative milestones

Current UK policy responses

Criticisms of UK policy

Summary and conclusions

Chapter 5 Psychological profiling

A brief history

Current practice in psychological profiling

Developments in profiling

The accuracy of profiling

Applying profiling to politically motivated violence

Profiling behaviour in politically motivated hostage incidents

Evaluation

Summary and conclusions

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Chapter 6 Risk, ambiguity, uncertainty and intractability

Key concepts

Risk assessment

Current practice in risk assessment

Cargo cult science

Going back to basics

Improving practice

Ecological rationality and better decision making

Keeping things simple

Using heuristics to cope with politically motivated violence

Summary and conclusions

Concluding thoughts

Index