Author: Smith, Brent L.
Title: Terrorism in America : Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams
Description: Albany [NY], State University of New York, (1994). orig.wrappers. 24x14cm, xv, 256 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: SUNY Series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies. Textual map. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Foreword by Austin T. Turk; Acknowledgments; introduction; terrorists in the criminal justice system: political and conceptual problems; the extent of terrorism in America; general trends in American terrorism; terrorism trends by type of group - international terorism, Puerto-Rican terrorism, Jewish terrorism, left- wing terrorism, right terrorism, special interest or single-issue terrorism; general conclusions about 1980s trends; extremists right and left; typologies of American terrorists; characteristics of left-wing and right-wing American terrorists-ideology, views of human nature and economic structure, base of operations, tactical approach, targets; profiling of American terrorist; the righteous and the extremists of the right- the Ku Klux Klan, sheriff's posse comitatus, the Aryan nations, Covenant, sword, and arm of the Lord, the order; right-wing terrorists try a comeback-bruder schweigen strike force II (OrderII), Arizona patriots, White patriot party; Leftist and single-issue terrorism; May 19th Communist Organization, Republic of New Africa, the United freedom front, Puerto-Rican terrorism, El Rukns; International terrorist activity in America- characteristics, Omega, provisional Irish Republican Army, the Valhalla incident, the Libyan Threat, Syrian Social Nationalist Party, Japanese Red Army, Amal ; criminalizing terrorism: problems without easy solution; Marx and Durkheim on Social Change; conflict and consensus as variables; punishing terrorists; differential sentencing patterns:

Keywords: American Political History, United States, Extremist Politics, Terrorism Extremism, Radical Movements, Terrorist Movement, Criminal Justice, Crime Law,