Study questions for midterm three, Ethics and Policy in Criminal Justice.  These are not to be handed in, they are just a guide to preparing for the test.

These are in addition to the Essential Background on Terrorism questions that you did as an assignment.
 

  1. What does Jerrold Post say about terrorist rhetoric?  What does he believe this tells us about their psychological makeup?
  2. What are the issues about the definition of terrorism?  Why do people with different political points of view differ on this question?
  3. What aspects of religious belief are especially relevant to terrorism?
  4. What is the difference between left and right-wing ideology?
  5. What is meant by nihilism?  How is this philosophy or world view related to terrorism?
  6. What are the major issues raised by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam?
  7. Who are the following people and what made them important as terrorists or in impacting terrorist movements:
    1. Bommi Baumann
    2. Abdullah Ocalan
    3. Antonio Negri
    4. Carlos Marighella
    5. Velupillai Prabhakaran
    6. Yassir Arafat
    7. Saddam Hussein
    8. Reza Shah Pahlavi
    9. Osama bin Laden
    10. Frantz Fanon
  8. What were the major issues in European terrorism in the 1970s?  What happened to those movements?
  9. What are the major issues raised by Moslem fundamentalists?  What are the underlying problems in the Moslem world that may explain their movement?
  10. What are the major issues in the Israel/Palestine conflict?  How has that conflict evolved over the last half century?
  11. What is the basic theme of the video "Faces of the Enemy"?
  12. What are the major issues in the Irish struggles, especially Northern Ireland?  What role has terrorism played, and how has the British government dealt with it?
  13. What are the major divisions within the Moslem world?  How are they relevant to terrorism?
  14. What strategies and tactics were used by the Tupamaros?  What happened to that movement?