Threat Actors And Their Motives Flashcards
Deference between deliberate and malicious?
Malicious acts are always deliberate but deliberate acts are not always malicious.
Deliberate act - thalidomide - honest intentions with poor outcomes; or a product thatβs recipe is changed but the harmless additive causes issues
Why study malicious contamination?
potential for large scale issues
research can help prevention or aid investigation
motivations translate well to other criminal behaviour
Define malicious contamination
Two forms:
poisoning of an individual
product tampering
Covers a range of crimes with different fundamental motives
What are the 3 facets for malicious contamination?
Kilbane and Wilson 2019
Specificity
Motive
Form of action
what is a typology?
a general classification type - eg personality types
what is a typology?
a general classification type - eg personality types
Kilbane and Wilson 2019 - define specificity
this is who was targeted
number of potential victims
need to compare intention vs actual outcome ie - only one person targeted in a workplace, but multiple people were affected
High specify is about targeting a single person, low could be just random victims, its a scale more than a dichotomy as groups of increasing size could be targeted ie persons, couple, family, workplace, consumer of a productβ¦
Kilbane and Wilson 2019 define motive
range from personal to political
but difficult to distinguish as politically motivated might have an element of personal motivation ie revenge for a policy harming the attackers family etc.
Kilbane and Wilson 2019 define form of action
expressive vs instrumental
expressive more emotionally driven
instrumental about achieving a goal
Kilbane and Wilson 2019 what are the facet combinations?
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Kilbane and Wilson 2019 Facet outcomes?
8 groups
3 features of an assassination
intentionality
targeting
victim is a prominent person
Assassination - define intentionality
The aim of the murderer is to kill a specific target, any associated murders (bystanders, bodyguards) are considered murder victims, not assassination victims
Some scholars state that the intention must not be over a personal matter like a love interest
Assassination - define targeted
there needs to be intentional planning to kill the specific individual, this could be years down to minutes, but a random act of say shooting into a crowd is not deemed assassination.
Assassination define a prominent person
killing a neighbour over a grievance is a murder, not an assassination, the perosn must have some form of public prominence
