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

James McAuley

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology
EditorsPaul Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall, Tereza Capelos, Henk Dekker
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
Pages165-186
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9781137291189
ISBN (Print)9781137291172, 9781349671045
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2014

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Political Psychology
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

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