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P-660 - Causal Connection Between Terrorism and Mental Illness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
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This research examines the connections between mental illness and terrorism. Most Social scientists have discounted a causal relationship between mental illness and terrorism. This is not necessarily always the case within terrorism studies, the media, or political circles where the psychology of terrorism is often expressed in the language of mentalisms, and theories of pathologisation continue to exist.
This research reaffirms the view that more than half of the cases have certain mental illnesses; there is there is about 15%of the sample had show no any psychopathology. the individual terrorist’s motivations can be explained by other factors, including behavioral psychology or may a scapegoat as cold be inferred from certain cases with mental retardation. However, there may be a connection between an individual engaging in terrorist activity and developing a mental disorder[s]. Certain Stressors that occur because of terrorist activity may result in psychological disturbance in terrorist individuals. These factors may partially explain terrorist group instability and should be taken into account when detaining and interrogating terrorist suspects
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