A TYPOLOGY OF TERRORISTS
Type of Terrorist
|
Trait | Crazy Crusader Criminal
|
Motivation | self-centered unselfish selfish
|
Survival | strong, but almost strong self-
Attitude | not based in sacrificial preservation
| reality death offers
| reward in
| afterlife
|
Goals | clear only higher cause personal gain
| to the (usually a profit
| perpetrator blend of
| religion and
| politics
|
Willing to | usually, in seldom, since possible, but
Negotiate | return for to do so only if police
| profit/safe would be seen can determine
| passage as betrayal motives and
| to the cause offer hope/
| alternatives
|
Risk | high risk taker indifferent avoid high risk
| to risk
|
Thought | highly personal task-oriented task-oriented
Process | irrational moderately rational
| rational
|
Behavior | unpredictable predictable/ predictable
| unpredictable
|
Victims | random for symbolic/ instrumental
| publicity
| value
|
Audience | random largest group small group
| possible
|
drawn from Frederick J. Hacker, Crusaders, Criminals, Crazies:
Terror and Terrorism in Our Time. New York: W.W. Norton, l976,
pp. 12-14.
(Hacker.394 h/b)