Petukhov V.B. The notion of “victims of terrorism”: conceptual and classification nuances

Abstract: The object of this research is the victims of terrorism, while the subject is the classification of the victims of terrorism. The authors rejects the confined criminological interpretation of the notion of “victims of terrorism”, as well as the corresponding attempts of their typologization and classification. The term “victims of terrorism” is examined considering the semiotic and etymological nuances of its conceptual content. Due to the complexity of the notion of “terrorism” itself, in classification of the victims of terrorism, the author gives particular attention to the terrifying factor of the influence of terrorism as the crucial in determination of peculiarities of the victims of terrorism. The scientific novelty consists in the author’s attempt to suggest the original classification of the victims of terrorism. In the proposed classification, the author highlights such imperative systemic aspects as the “victims of terrorism”, “victims the terrorist acts”, “victims of terrorist propaganda”, and “victims of terrorophobia a”, as well as gives their general characteristics. The article formulates the original hypothesis of establishment of the “Stockholm syndrome” under the influence of the families and relatives of the terrorist acts.

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