How will criminal justice react to terrorism? In this book, some hard questions are asked about how terrorism is organized, supported, and financed, and what this will mean for the security of nations and international systems. Topics include the International Criminal Court, suicidal terrorism, counter-terrorism, the use of the Internet by terrorist organizations, and a profile of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh. This volume is essential to understanding the political climate of the new millennium.

This invaluable resource is written by leading international experts of policing and terrorism prevention. The contributors provide an in-depth analysis of the dilemmas, challenges, and solutions faced by police departments and law enforcement bodies in their efforts to counter local and global terrorism. The chapters cover terrorism and the policing of terrorism in various countries, such as the US, Palestine, Columbia, Turkey, Korea, and Malta. Table of Contents: Female Perpetrators of Palestinian Terrorist Attacks with a Special Reference to Their Socio-Cultural Position: An Exploratory Empirical Examination * The Concept of Social Equilibrium and Its Application to Policing Terrorism in the United States * Policing Terrorism in Colombia * Dynamics of Terrorism in Turkey * Threat from and Policing against Global Salafi Terrorism in the Republic of Korea: A Story from the Eastern Front * Policing Terrorism in Malta * Post-9/11 United States' Airport Security Changes and Displacement * Situational Crime Prevention Applied to Ricin and Bioterrorism. (Series: Israel Studies in Criminology - Vol. 11)

Shoham presents existentialist and object-relationship personality theory using mythology as a projection of human behavior. Through the myth of Don Juan as well as the personality of Casanova, he highlights the biological parameter of the personality and the thought of Kierkegaard and Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. He concludes by relating the dynamics of personality to the predisposition of crime and madness.