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‘Do Terrorists Have Goatee Beards?’ Contemporary Understandings of Terrorism and the Terrorist

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Abstract

On 5 February 2005, the Washington Post revealed the latest image of terrorism in the United States. It took the form of Edgar Morales (a.k.a. ‘Puebla’), a member of the Mexican ‘St James Boys’ street gang, resident of the Bronx and described as about five feet tall with a goatee beard and dressed in baggy clothes. Morales had been arrested following the fatal shooting of a ten-year-old bystander after the outbreak of inter-gang violence at a Church christening in August 2002 and was later convicted of attempted murder, manslaughter, possession of dangerous weapons and conspiracy to murder.

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    Paul Nesbitt-Larking

  2. Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden

    Catarina Kinnvall

  3. Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK

    Tereza Capelos

  4. Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Henk Dekker

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McAuley, J.W. (2014). ‘Do Terrorists Have Goatee Beards?’ Contemporary Understandings of Terrorism and the Terrorist. In: Nesbitt-Larking, P., Kinnvall, C., Capelos, T., Dekker, H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-29118-9_10

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