Web Resources and Exercises

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The following websites provide information about extremist movements and ideologies in the United States:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of terrorism in the United States.

  1. How would you describe the typologies of groups that predominate in the United States?
  2. Conduct a Web search of American monitoring organizations, read their mission statements, and assess their services. Which organizations do you think provide the most useful data? Why?
  3. If you were an American dissident extremist (leftist or rightist), how would you design your own website?

For an online search of terrorism in the United States, readers should enter the following keywords in the search engine on their Web browser:

  • “Domestic Terrorism”
  • “Homeland Security”