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: Terrorism Research News

Terrorism Is A Social Problem, Not A Mental Health Or Criminal Problem

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Via Medical News Today, 4 Jul 2008. There is no evidence that young terrorists are mentally ill, a leading authority on terrorism has claimed at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Professor Scott Atran, research director in anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and presidential scholar in sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, also said there was no evidence that terrorists have personality disorders, are brainwashed by radical imams in mosques or Islamic religious schools (madrassahs), or enticed by the thought of scores of virgins waiting in heaven. Professor Atran said radicalism was a social problem, rather than a mental health or criminal problem, and that young militants need superheroes to lead them away from the paths of jihad and terrorism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Terrorism Research News on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).

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