The target persona and victim;s identity
Perception of conflict
The connection between past criminal behaviour and terrorist attacks
Order through chaos
gradual exposition to ideology and mindset inside the group
Perceptual structure
Axiological structure
Hierarchial structure
Questions
what is criminal legitimacy?
Criminal legitimacy is based on the concept of self justification. Self justification is the process through which in an individual motivates and justifies his behavior in order to avoid a cgnitive and moral dissonance. Criminal legitimacy is the process through which a criminal motivates and justifies his beahvior and his acts. Both self justification and criminal legitimacy are influenced by the individual's perception of the world.
how does criminal legitimacy bypass societal laws, rules, and norms?
Criminal legitimacy is suported by three cognitive structures:
The perceptual structure-the way the criminal views the society, culture, religions, norms and valuses
The axiological structure- the criminal identifies and internalizes some norms and values and rejects others
The hierarchical structure- the role that the criminal has as an individual, the role that he should have and the roles he rejects.
By internalizing norms that are opposed to main societal norms. It is important to take into consideration Fike and Tage's theory, that states that the criminal commits the crime beacuse he thinks "it is the right thing to do", the "right" think in his perception. When these norm and values are adopted, accepted and internalized, they manage to bypass the lwas and rules that the individual learned during primary and secondary socialization.