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Violent Crime & Terrorism

Violent crime can be attributed to many factors, including all the ones listed here, but the foremost explanation for violent crime is a complex decisions-making process and interactions, many at a conscious level of awareness. We are speaking here, first and foremost, of violent street crime, as opposed to unpremeditated acts of violence among family members, neighbors or friends. Crimes of this latter type, arising from quarrels of from feelings of a pathological nature, do not lend themselves as readily to this type of interpretation. However, to the extent that street crime, in effect, constitutes a career choice, it is subject to the same type of decision-making that is involved in other career choices. Street crime, in other words, is rarely unpremeditated but is the reflection of a pattern of social interaction. The person who turns to street crime does so in the belief that economic advancement is more readily assured through this means then through the pursuit of mainstream career patterns.

It follows from this that poverty itself is not a cause of street crime but rather the existence of a widespread belief to the effect that criminality is an acceptable reaction to poverty. There must also exist a statistical unlikelihood of apprehension; this, rather than the severity of punishment, is the conscious factor which enters most prominently into the criminal’s deliberations. In short, the so-called career criminal chooses crime on the basis of the same radical considerations that enter into career choice in general.

Terrorism is first and foremost a reaction to oppression or to what is viewed as oppression. However, terrorists ultimately acquire a vested interest in the perpetuation of terrorism that comes to transcend the immediate circumstances that give rise to terrorism. That is to say, since most terrorists are employed full time in terrorist activities, any negotiations that offer t

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