Psychological and Behavioral Factors of Individual Terrorists

For this midterm assignment, you will write a college-level research paper describing the psychological and behavioral factors of individual terrorists (i.e. recruits and suicide bombers; not terrorist leaders).

Note: You will address different radicalization processes/models in the final paper, such as Moghaddam's Staircase, so you only need to research and discuss individual psychological and behavioral factors in this paper. Also, remember that "psychological" does not mean "psychotic," and we are only addressing those of sound mind who deliberately choose violence for a political purpose, retribution, or to instill fear (not mass shooters with psychological issues).

Assignment Specifics:

The body of your report is to be at least three FULL pages in length (not counting the title page and references) and is to contain the following:

A brief introduction, including the topic and your thesis

A main body, containing the "meat" of the paper, where you provide the requested information supported by class readings and with your analysis

A conclusion, summarizing your information clearly and concisely

Technical Requirements

Your paper must be at a minimum of 3-5 pages (the Title and Reference pages do not count towards the minimum limit).

Scholarly and credible references should be used. A good rule of thumb is at least 2 scholarly sources per page of content.

Type in Times New Roman, 12 point, and double space.

Students will follow the current APA Style as the sole citation and reference style used in written work submitted as part of coursework.

Points will be deducted for the use of Wikipedia or encyclopedic-type sources. It is highly advised to utilize books, peer-reviewed journals, articles, archived documents, etc.

All submissions will be graded using the assignment rubric.