CRJ 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: United States Department Of State, John Walker Lindh, Factitious Disorder Imposed On Self

• School: St. John's University
• Department: CRJ - CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• Course: CRJ 2001
• Professor: Allyson Maida

Document Summary

Munchausen"s syndrome by proxy: munchausen"s syndrome: causing yourself to be sick, purposely getting sick/injury, by proxy someone else causes the sickness or injury. At risk children: 12 months to 6 years, either gender. Political crime: illegal acts that are designed to undermine and existing government and threaten its survival. The goals of political criminals: intimidation, revolution, profit, conviction, pseudo-conviction. Terror cells: most terror groups subdivide their affiliates into terror cells for organizational and security purposes: crime family, boss lieutenants/captains (management) runners . Support groups/wannabe groups: go after the bottom, to get to the top. Or go after the boss/just below him: terror cells: has many crime families, in which you take one out, but they can still continue to work. Guerilla: rural focus but may infiltrate urban areas in small bands, attack the military, the police and government officials, and eventually organizing into the form of a conventional military force: farc: south america, be familiar with that acronym.