|
|
|
Sort Order |
|
|
|
Items / Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Srl | Item |
| 1 |
ID:
024043
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post, 1985.
|
| Description |
118p.
|
| Standard Number |
0813303249
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
Circulation
| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 026834 | 363.32/KUR 026834 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
ID:
034547
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
Colorado, Westview Press, 1986.
|
| Description |
130p.
|
| Standard Number |
0813305020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
Circulation
| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 028571 | 303.625/MER 028571 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
|
|
|
|
| 3 |
ID:
031294
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post, 1987.
|
| Description |
140p
|
| Series |
JCSS project on terrorism
|
| Standard Number |
0813306841
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
Circulation
| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 029664 | 303.625090486/KUR 029664 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
ID:
188095
|
|
|
|
|
| Summary/Abstract |
This study was designed to investigate the background, psychological characteristics and motivations of independent actors who carried out attacks in Israel. It also examined the antecedent factors that influenced their decision to carry out an attack, and their retrospective attitudes to the act. Forty-five Palestinians who had carried out attacks against Israeli targets on their own initiative were interviewed in prison about their background, motivations, circumstances and process of the attack. Thirty-nine of them were also interviewed by a clinical psychologist and took a battery of psychological tests. Twenty-six of these were diagnosed as suffering from one or more of the following: psychotic background, severe personality disorder, and suicidality. A considerable number of the participants described personal, family or social problems that influenced their decision to carry out the attack. Three dominant motives for carrying out an attack were identified: suicidality, a psychotic state, and an ideological national-religious motivation. The characteristics of the attack were influenced by the dominant type of motivation. The discussion compares the findings of this study with those of a study on suicide bombers and with studies on behavioral characteristics of independent actors in other countries.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 5 |
ID:
059490
|
|
|
| 6 |
ID:
094867
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
2010.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
Knowledge about the ways in which suicide attacks are recruited and prepared and on the motivation of suicide bombers and the factors that influence the decisions of organizers of suicide attacks has so far been sketchy and sporadic, derived mostly from media sources. In this study, 15 Palestinian would-be suicides and 14 organizers of suicide attacks participated in semi-structured interviews designed to fill this lacuna. The paper focuses on the self-reported feelings and behavior of the suicide bombers from recruitment to dispatching, as well as on the organizers' self-reported views and decisions concerning suicide attacks.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 7 |
ID:
094866
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
2010.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
This is a report of a direct psychological examination of suicide, or "martyrdom" terrorists and of organizers of martyrdom attacks. Assessments of the personality of self-martyrs have so far relied on biographical material drawn from secondary sources. In the absence of direct psychological examinations, the debate on the existence of distinctive personality factors among suicide terrorists has so far remained at the hypothetical level. This study subjected failed Palestinian suicide terrorists, a control group of non-suicide terrorists, and a group of organizers of suicide attacks, to clinical psychological interviews and tests. Significant differences were found between suicide and non-suicide terrorists and between these two groups and the organizers of martyrdom attacks. Two main personality styles were found among the would-be suicides. Members of this group had a significantly lower level of ego strength than the organizers of martyrdom attacks. Most of the would-be martyrs displayed a dependent and avoidant personality style, a profile that made them more amenable to group, leader, and public influence. Others were assessed as having an impulsive and emotionally unstable style. Some of the would-be martyrs but none of the control and organizers groups' participants displayed sub-clinical suicidal tendencies. Significantly more martyr than control group members displayed symptoms of depression.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 8 |
ID:
039722
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
Telanv, University, 1984.
|
| Description |
81p
|
| Series |
Jaffee Centre for strategic studies paper
|
| Standard Number |
03343642
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
Circulation
| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 025448 | 322.42/ELA 025448 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
|
|
|
|
| 9 |
ID:
113533
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
2012.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
In this issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Brym and Araj published a critique of the study of would-be suicide bombers that the present author carried out with colleagues. Brym and Araj's point of departure was their allegation that the article attributed the Palestinian suicide attacks mainly to depression and suicidality of the suicide bombers. Their critique was aimed at disputing this alleged attribution. For this end they criticized various aspects of the methodology used in the study and described their own study which, in their view, challenges the author's findings. In this response article the author shows that Brym and Araj's critique is based on false allegations, cannibalized quotes, and distorted interpretation of the published descriptions of the study. Their methodological criticism alleging biased psychological assessment is invalid because it ignores the use of a control group and a "blind" reliability check of the diagnoses. Brym and Araj's own study suffers from serious methodological problems: venturing a psychological assessment on the basis of a brief interview with family members, conducted and analyzed by persons unqualified for making clinical psychological diagnoses, without using a standard battery of psychological tests. Brym and Araj did not use a control group and a "blind" reliability check of their diagnoses.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|