PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF TERRORISM.

The understanding of the terrorist mindset and psychology would be the key to understanding how and why an individual becomes a terrorist, the causes and consequences of terrorism and help to clear up from whom to expect such actions and how to anticipate, prevent and investigate crimes connected with terror

Our aim is to work out the recommendations for the war on certain causes and roots of terrorism. Problems: 1. A nalyze general scientific approaches to terrorism and theories of terrorist‘s behavior 2. D escribe psychological mechanisms and motivation of terrorist activity 3. Give psychological analysis of terrorist’s profile and on its basis work out recommendations for the war on terrorism

Terrorism is a complex phenomenon The theories of terrorist’s behavior Terrorism the result of defects or disorders in one’s personality structure. psychologically normal activity

Political terrorist personality is made, not born characteristic Motivation and Psychological Mechanisms: - ideological absolutism - necrophilia - self-assertion - selfish ends - self-identity - youth romantic appeal and heroism - giving the special importance to the activity - challenge to estrangement - conformity, standardization, satiety of society - game motivation

unwillingness to compromise, disdain for other alternative views tendency to see things in black-and-white rigidity of belief perception of the world that reflects a closed mind Terrorist is not protected from the death by the aim of survival Necrophilia (attraction to death) Cognitive processes which unite fanaticism and necrophilia:

Comparison of the Terrorists and Criminals: AspectTerroristsCriminals average age2830 family adaptation and status The same education level26%10% brain work17%5% served in the army37 %13% not taken into the army 13%21% refusal to take part in the games 4%12% equal partnership33%55%, leading10%14% examination for the sake of previous committed crimes 8%27% supervision of the mental health service 33%42% indefinite social values 46%51% autoaggression22%10% Table of analysis №1

Mental characteristicsTerroristsCriminals mentally sane42%10% schizophrenia8%16% epilepsy1%2% psychopathy6%15% remaining damage of brains 24%33% alcoholism and drug addiction 4%10% mental deficiency2%4% Table of analysis №2

Civic Defense Model It aims at safeguarding the individual rights. The main features of it are: Immediate response: invoke civic structures; ensure the survival of civic structures under attack. Legal-Political Approach: primarily authority rests with citizens themselves.

1.Terrorism is the result of many psychological, economic, political, religious and sociological factors. 2.The necrophilia is one of the predominant motives in the terrorist behavior among others, such as self-assertion, youth romance and revolutionary heroism, attaching importance to the life, withdrawal form everyday routine, establishment of oneself in the group and game motivation. 3. The powerful psychological forces of conversion in the group are sufficient to offset traditional social sanctions against violence, but they are not paramount, as the leading or high position in the group is typical for the three fourth of the examined terrorists, in the role of actual doers are only one fourth of them. 4. Motives of terrorist activity are not formed in the small informal groups or under the influence of criminals or conversion and collective commitment of crimes, but in the process of family raising and national traditions, rites, under the influence of older authorities. 5. For the improvement of counterterrorist methods and policies it is possible to use elements of immunized democracy as an effective way of influence on the psychological causes of terrorism. Conclusion