Terrorism as a Form of Crime and Countermeasures

Abstract

Modem terrorism is characterized by hihg level of organization, globalism, professionalism, misuse of technical developments, great financial power acquired by means of money laundering and manipulations of financial institutions in many countries. The examples of such organizations are Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Terrorism cannot be conceived or explained out of the whole crime milieu and regardless the whole social and political relations that represent a burden for modem society.

Terrorism as the most dangerous form of organized crime contains all characteristics of other secret crime associations which are not politically motivated as drug-associated crime, cormption, money laundering. Moreover, these forms of crime are overlapped and contracted and because of that terrorism itself loses a character of exclusively political incrimination, whether it is matter of direct perpetrators and their goals or the consequences.

On the other hand, tn addition to its extreme cruelty and inhumanity terrorism as a destructive way to manage social relations and political conflicts finds its adherents and support within a part of extreme political population who approves violence as a way to solve social and political problems. All these circumstances influence fight against terrrorism as the most dangerous evil of modern humanity.

The author deals tn this paper with these and other actual questions concerning organized crime and terrorism, attaching particular importance to measures to prevent and stamp them out. He insists on preventing, detecting and stamping out causes of terrorism and other forms of organized crime as a more appropriate and human way to fight against terrorism In favour of this attitude the author states also other justified reasons.