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This paper is based on work addressing three theories of criminology in relation to terrorism. The paper discusses what terrorism is, the conflict theory's usefulness to an understanding of why terrorism emerges, the forms it takes and the perceptions of those engaging in it. The paper makes reference to "Islamic" terrorism of the present, and the nature of Tamil terrorism in Sri Lanka.

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"The public is familiar with the term of terrorism in the present day, though relatively few persons will scrutinize what is meant by it. Terrorism is a methodology that belongs to Military Science in a collection of techniques, but terrorism is included under the category of Criminology in library cataloguing systems. Richard Rosenfeld explained that terrorism can be well understood through the approaches of criminology, however, as came into view when looking at three criminological theories in (1) classical, (2) consensus and (3) conflict..."

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