Disorders and Terrorism: Report of the Task Force on Disorders and Terrorism

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National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, 1977 - 661 pagini
This volume contains standards and goals that deal with virtually every facet of the matter of disorders and terrorism. They are aimed at civil authorities, police, courts, corrections, and the community. There are explicit proposals for training police and law enforcement agencies in preventive measures that can be taken against mass violence, for the tactical management of disorders, and for the deterrence of terrorism as well as the evaluation of threats of acts of disorders and terrorism. There are very detailed plans that the police in state and municipalities will find most useful during times of rioting or other extraordinary social upheavals. The task force has written extensively on the role the courts should play during and after such occurrences, including recommendations on how to deal with trials of cases arising out of incidents of terrorism. There are also suggestions for the news media to follow in the reporting of occurrences and of the trials that follow. The number of prison disorders in recent years has produced a response from the task force in terms of institutional conditions and correctional objectives, particularly with respect to persons convicted of terrorist acts. The appendixes contain articles dealing with an overview of international terrorism, terrorism and new weapons technology, and terrorism in Argentina, Canada, and West Germany. There is also a chronology of terroristic, quasi-terroristic, and political violence in the United States, covering the period from 1965 to 1976.

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Pagina 38 - Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of racial justice. If one recognizes this vital urge that has engulfed the Negro community, one should readily understand why public demonstrations are taking place. The Negro has many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides — and try to understand why he must do so.
Pagina 492 - THEREFORE, His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of...
Pagina 494 - Every one who commits an aggravated assault is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
Pagina 494 - ... solicits subscriptions or contributions for the unlawful association, or (g) advocates, promotes or engages in the use of force or the commission of crime as a means of or as an aid in accomplishing the same or substantially the same governmental change within Canada...
Pagina 492 - Affirming also that men and institutions remain free only when freedom is founded upon respect for moral and spiritual values and the rule of law...
Pagina 119 - March 1968) : . . . the only genuine, long-range solution for what has happened lies in an attack mounted at every level — upon the conditions that breed despair and violence. All of us know what those are: Ignorance, discrimination, slums, poverty, disease, not enough jobs. We should attack these conditions — not because we are frightened by conflict, but because we are fired by conscience.
Pagina 67 - Second, the press obtained much factual information about the scale of the disorders — property damage, personal injury, and deaths — from local officials who often were inexperienced in dealing with civil disorders and not always able to sort out fact from rumor in the confusion. At the height of the Detroit riot, some news reports of property damage put the figure in excess of $500 million.
Pagina 422 - November 1937), 23 signatories defined terrorism as "criminal acts directed against a state and intended or calculated to create a state of terror in the minds of particular persons...
Pagina 19 - ... anticipated reality. The actual state of socio-economic development is less significant than the expectation that past progress, now blocked, can and must continue in the future. Political stability and instability are ultimately dependent on a state of mind, a mood, in a society. Satisfied or apathetic people who are poor in goods, status, and power can remain politically quiet and their opposites can revolt, just as, correlatively and more probably, dissatisfied poor can revolt and satisfied...

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