ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of these factors related to terrorism. Those who have studied terrorism realize that it is a comprehensive subject. Some books devote specific chapters to each of these factors. Instead, I seek to provide a simple, yet concise framework of these factors. One of the key aspects is to understand why people become terrorists and extremists. Hence, a key part of my approach is to focus on ideologies and other motivating influences. As Yungher asserts, the way to understand a group is to focus on the relationship between their values and their ideologies.1 Hopefully this approach will enable you to apply key principles and issues related to terrorism to inform the policing model designed to combat it.
