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Domestic violence, once considered one of the most underreported crimes, became more widely recognized during the 1980s and 1990s. Various individuals and groups have defined domestic violence to include everything from saying unkind or demeaning words, to grabbing a person's arm, to hitting, kicki...
The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) insurgent group also stepped up military operations and terrorism activity across Colombia in October 2013. In addition, a recent study by the US Congressional Research Service shows that domestic terrorists have been responsible for more than ...
We found that by analyzing the hyperlink structures and content of domestic extremist web sites and constructing social network maps, their interorganizational structure and cluster affinities could be identified. Such analysis results could help experts in terrorism, law enforcement, intelligence, and ...
"Homegrown" terrorists, on the other hand, fall under the FBI's international terrorism program and are radicalized by overseas groups like ISIS or Al Qaeda. (VIDEO: What is domestic terrorism?) The FBI is currently investigating about 850 possible domestic terrorists and tracking another 1,000 ...
The laws regarding slaves reflected the Terrorism and paternalism of slavery. A slave had a nebulous right to Self-Defense, but a slave owner was allowed to restrain and punish a slave with impunity. A slave owner could not beat a slave publicly, but a slave could not avoid punishment for...
"One of the things you learned was that these militia groups can organize and mobilize," Pelley said. "And that's part of a broader phenomenon that we've seen over the last couple of years, of a variety of anti-government, anti-authority violent extremists," Wray said. "But a lot of...
and not what motivates them. This wise policy allowed the FBI to follow violence wherever it was found, freed from the influences of powerful interest groups. It allowed Lady Liberty to remain blindfolded. The president’s new domestic terrorism strategy wants her to peek in onl...
The provisions of the Patriot Act also are some of the most significant threats and breaches to civil liberties, privacy, and democratic traditions which have been embodied in the US history and Constitution.1 The Patriot Act, although framed to protect the American citizens from terrorism, has ...