Theories Of Terrorism

Did you know that approximately 170 cyber-attacks occur every hour (CBS, 2015)?
Along with the increasing rise of technological advances, commodities, reforms these frontiers have also serve to facilitate the rise of new contemporary issues that elude criminologist and pre-existing theories. Theories which originated from a “great crowd of very diverse people meeting up and passing through, sometimes establishing fruitful exchange, sometimes merely rubbing shoulders in the crowded passage of textbooks and conferences” (Freilich & Lafree, 2014). To honor those encounters in this essay I’ll be describing how the contemporary issues of terrorism and cybercrime are impacting standing theories.
Terrorism is a recent phenomenon that gained momentum in the United States after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Baffled by the attacks the government rushed to implement the US Patriot Act which escalated the fear of terrorism and basically placed infringements on constitutional rights on the basis of national security. On a normal day we would turn to standing theories to explain the causes of crime since these theories serve to ask and
Terrorism a fairly recent phenomena expedited government and criminologist responses to the point that criminologist neglected to analyze completely the issue using the various standing theories and focused on the main obvious ones instead and in doing so they missing out on important observations. Besides terrorism, cybercrimes are also a new phenomenon. Cybercrimes have been affecting standing theories by nullifying the preventive strategies that have been crafted from a thorough understanding of the inner workings of each theory. All in it might be necessary to reevaluate and update standing theories or find different ways of approaching these new contemporary