Question

this is a criminal justice topic

Compare and contrast the academic views regarding the dichotomy of the “old” and “new” terrorism.

Answer 1

	Old Terrorism	New Terrorism
organization	Identifiable Organizations	Variety of organization with unclear or undefined nationalist or ideological motivations
structure	Clear command and control apparatuses	Diffuse and decentralized structure and membership
Aims	Defined set of political, social, or economic objectives	Amorphous, religious and millenarian objectives
Type of attack	Highly selective and mostly discriminate acts of violence	Widespread, indiscriminate violence

Targets	Symbolic targets or specific persons blamed for exploitation or repression	Civilians ,infrastructure, officials
State backing	state sponsored	No clear state involvement
Size	Small, between 20-400"men-at-arms"	Large, between 500-5000"men-at-arms"