The Faces of Terrorism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0470753811 ISBN 13 : 9780470753811

Editeur : Wiley, 2009

Synopsis

An international, multi-disciplinary team explores the many different facets of terrorism, investigating what it means to be a terrorist and what terrorism means for society.

• Gets closer to the perspectives of terrorists - their views, how their acts are conceptualized by the public and by national leaders, and how this knowledge can be put to use
• Brings together international experts from psychology, psychiatry, law and policing
• Edited by one of the world's foremost forensic psychology experts, David Canter

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Canter is Professor of Psychology and Director of the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, and founding editor of the Wiley Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. He has worked with police forces all over the world on 'profiling', which led to the emergence of Investigative Psychology. This has included unique studies of terrorists. Since 1986, Professor Canter has contributed to over 150 investigations of many different kinds of crimes around the world, and was recently awarded a BPS Honorary Fellowship. He has also written two award-winning books, Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer (1995) and Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling (2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470753811
• ISBN 13: 9780470753811
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Canter David V.
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