Arena Michael P, Arrigo Bruce A
Department of Criminal Justice, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
Behav Sci Law. 2005;23(4):485-506. doi: 10.1002/bsl.653.
This article relies upon structural symbolic interactionism and five of its organizing concepts (i.e. symbols, the definition of the situation, roles, socialization and role-taking, and the self) to put forth a novel conceptual framework for understanding the terrorist identity. In order to demonstrate the practical utility of the framework, applications to various terrorist groups around the globe are incorporated into the analysis. Overall, both the theoretical and application work help reorient the academic and practitioner behavioral science communities to the importance of culture, self, and society when investigating one's membership in and identity through militant extremist organizations. Given the unique approach taken by this article, several provisional implications are delineated. In particular, future research on terrorism, strategies linked to counter-terrorism, legal and public policy reform, and the relevance of utilizing a sociologically animated social psychology in the assessment of other forms of criminal behavior are all very tentatively explored.
本文依托结构符号互动理论及其五个组织概念（即符号、情境定义、角色、社会化与角色承担以及自我），提出了一个理解恐怖主义身份的全新概念框架。为了证明该框架的实际效用，分析中纳入了其在全球各类恐怖组织中的应用。总体而言，理论和应用工作有助于让学术和实践行为科学界在通过激进极端组织调查个人成员身份和身份认同时，重新认识文化、自我和社会的重要性。鉴于本文采用的独特方法，阐述了若干初步影响。特别是，对恐怖主义的未来研究、与反恐相关的策略、法律和公共政策改革，以及在评估其他形式犯罪行为时运用具有社会学活力的社会心理学的相关性，都进行了非常初步的探讨。
