Outcome 6 (Criminal Justice)
The term terrorism tends to mean just one thing for people and that someone that does
mass killings or some type of bombing in the United States. This is what the citizens in the U.S.
believe terrorism is. The exact definition of terrorism is the unlawful use of any violence or a
group intimating against civilians in pursuit of political aims. Before the 21st century, the United
States did not worry about anything happening in their country. Especially in the airports,
security was not worried about any threat and that is why the security checkpoints were more
relaxed. This all soon began to change when the terrorist attack happened in New York City
when hijackers flew planes into the Twin Towers. This was truly an incident that not just
shocked the United States, but also worried the whole world. Because of this terrorist attack,
there has been new challenges for the United States to face terrorism. The scary thing about this
is that the citizens and government may never know when an attack can happen. What can be
said is that now in the 21st century, fighting terrorism and trying to prevent any more terrorist
attacks to happen have been one of the main priorities for the United States. What the United
States needs to know that terrorism is nothing new. There will always be some groups that try to
intimidate and scare the public even in their own home country. There are a few challenges that
the United States have in fighting terrorism and defending the homeland.
There can be many challenges to face after a country that has been attacked and the result
of that being hundreds of lives lost, but since the 9/11 attacks, the security to prevent more
terrorist attacks have stepped up gradually. The reaction that the U.S. government reacted after
9/11 was “the concept of a “new paradigm” namely, the proposition that, in a time of perceived
threat to national security of the magnitude of the September 11, 2001 attacks, it is legitimate and
legal either to interpret certain core norms of international law as not binding or to consider that
the powers of the President under the constitution to wage a “war” on terrorism” (Marks, 2006).
This kind of paradigm was really dramatic because it prevented from war to happen. The United
States could easily call for war after this terrorist attack. Instead the step to take was to upgrade
all types of security at every single place especially government buildings, sporting events, and
even in marathons. All this upgrading is the result of 9/11. An incident that happened even after
the 9/11 attacks was the Boston Marathon bombings. This is the shocking part because any type
of security has no idea when an attack can happen. This can be one of the main challenges that
the United States have to deal with since a terrorist attack can happen at any time of the moment.
Many citizens believe that the terrorist are those that are not from this country and decide to
attack us. Those are not just the terrorist but also citizens that do their own attacking in the U.S.
is considered to be terrorist. Technically anyone can become a terrorist at any time and there is
