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Terrorism as a process: A critical review of Moghaddam’s “Staircase to Terrorism”
Author(s) -
LYGRE RAGNHILD B.,
EID JARLE,
LARSSON GERRY,
RANSTORP MAGNUS
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00918.x
Subject(s) - terrorism , empirical evidence , psychology , subject (documents) , empirical research , process (computing) , social psychology , criminology , political science , epistemology , computer science , mathematics , law , statistics , philosophy , operating system , library science
Lygre, R. B., Eid, J., Larsson, G. & Ranstorp, M. (2011). Terrorism as a process: A critical review of Moghaddam’s “Staircase to Terrorism”. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 609–616. This study reviews empirical evidence for Moghaddam’s model “Staircase to Terrorism,” which portrays terrorism as a process of six consecutive steps culminating in terrorism. An extensive literature search, where 2,564 publications on terrorism were screened, resulted in 38 articles which were subject to further analysis. The results showed that while most of the theories and processes linked to Moghaddam’s model are supported by empirical evidence, the proposed transitions between the different steps are not. These results may question the validity of a linear stepwise model and may suggest that a combination of mechanisms/factors could combine in different ways to produce terrorism.