Deck 3: Causes of Terrorist Violence

Question 1

Which of the following has been used to identify social conditions that affect from access to services, equal rights, civil protections, freedom, or other quality of life measured?

A) structural theory
B) relative deprivation theory
C) anomie theory
D) differential associate theory

Answer 1

C

Question 2

______ takes place when a group has been deprived of the basic necessities for survival by a government or social order.

A) Relative deprivation
B) Absolute deprivation
C) Anomie
D) Differential association

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following explanations of terrorist behavior use theories of individual motivations and group dynamics to explain why people decide to adopt strategies of political violence and why groups continue campaigns of violence.

A) social
B) criminal
C) psychological
D) biological

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following theories has been criticized for relying on variables that are difficult to operationalize?

A) anomie theory
B) strain theory
C) differential association theory
D) relative deprivation theory

Question 5

The application of ______ focused on the availability of goals and means.

A) anomie theory
B) strain theory
C) differential association theory
D) relative deprivation theory

Question 6

Which of the following theories posits that political extremism and criminal behavior require the convergence of three societal elements?

A) relative deprivation theory
B) differential association theory
C) routine activities theory
D) anomie theory

Question 7

Which of the following theories stems from the concept of anomie?

A) differential association theory
B) routine activities theory
C) relative deprivation theory
D) strain theory

Question 8

An effort to force chance is referred to as ______.

A) a rational decision
B) an act of political will
C) an act of free will
D) an irrational decision

Question 9

All of the following were identified as elements of routine activities theory except for ______.

A) a steady supply of motivated offenders
B) the ready availability of attractive victims and targets of opportunity
C) the availability of weapons
D) the presence, or lack thereof, of social guardians

Question 10

The peoples war strategy was first developed and applied to the ______ revolution.

A) French
B) American
C) Spanish
D) Chinese

Question 11

All of the following were identified as motives except for ______.

A) moral convictions of terrorists
B) complex definitions of good and evil
C) seeking utopia
D) codes of self-sacrifice

Question 12

Anomie focuses on the availability of goals and means.

Question 13

Strain is manifested as a desire to achieve goals, and one's inability to acquire the legitimate means to attain them.

Question 14

According to routine activities theory, political extremism and criminal behavior require the convergence of various elements.

Question 15

Social movements are campaigns that try either to promote change or to preserve something that is perceived as threatened.

Question 16

Women are not been properly represented in extremist movements and organizations.

Question 17

Relative deprivation takes place when a group has been deprived of the basic necessities for survival by a government or social order.

Question 18

Differential association is a process of individual learning.

Question 19

Why is political violence frequently denounced by Western democracies as "terrorism?"

Question 20

Identify the broad causes of terrorism.

Question 21

Discuss structural theory.

Question 22

Identify one to two psychological explanations of terrorism.

Question 23

Discuss the Stockholm Syndrome case.

Question 24

Discuss the morality of political violence. Is such violence always immoral? Is it ever justifiable? Explain your answer.

Question 25

What are codes of self-sacrifice and how are these moral justifications.

Question 26

What is utopia and what kinds of utopia do you believe terrorists seek?

Question 27

What is the role of "codes of self-sacrifice"? Why is this concept so central to our understanding of why violent extremists do what they do?

Question 28

Why did Cold War revolutionaries and other dissidents use what many would define as terrorism in their rebellions? What was the influence of Mao Zedong in this regard? Explain your answer.

Question 29

Critique psychological explanations of terrorism. Do they adequately explain the causes of political violence? If so, how so? If not, how not?

Question 30

Critique sociological explanations of terrorism. Do they adequately explain the causes of political violence? If so, how so? If not, how not?

Question 31

Critique criminological explanations of terrorism. Do they adequately explain the causes of political violence? If so, how so? If not, how not?