From the activities of violent terrorist crimes and scholars' definitions of violent terrorist crimes, we can see that violent terrorist crimes have the following characteristics:

1. The main means of crime is violence or the threat of violence, so it has serious social harm and generally constitutes a serious criminal act. Terrorist crimes often use murder, explosion, kidnapping, hostage-taking, hijacking of aircraft, armed attack, creating riots, poisoning, arson and other means. In order to successfully commit terrorist crimes and raise funds for terrorist crimes, terrorists often commit other criminal acts such as robbing banks, stealing weapons, certificates and cars. They bombed airports, railway facilities, large gatherings of folk festivals, military facilities and office buildings of multinational companies and suddenly attacked them. When they kidnap or assassinate people with social influence, the victims they target are often uncertain, so the victims are often innocent people, many of whom are women and children. German criminologist Hans Joachim Schneider quoted a set of statistical data in his book Criminology. He said: Since 1966, terrorist activities have greatly increased. Double from 1968 to 1970 and from 1970 to 1980. There were 6700 terrorist incidents from 1968 to1980 * *. Most of them occurred in western Europe, and about 40% of the direct victims came from North America. From 1968 to1980,3668 people died at the hands of terrorists and 7474 people were injured. In other words, in more than ten years, more than 10,000 people have been killed or injured in terrorist activities. This is only the tangible social harm of terrorist activities. In view of the violent terrorist crimes committed for ethnic division, criminologists say: the purpose of ethnic terrorists is ethnic division, or to separate one nation from cooperation with another. There are always some ethnic minorities in the world who think that they have been discriminated against and oppressed in society, politics, language and religion. Therefore, they pursue so-called cultural and political autonomy. State terrorists want to achieve social and political changes overnight out of thin air. In addition to these ultra-left terrorists, ultra-right (fascist, neo-Nazi) terrorism also poses a serious threat in Italy and Germany. In fact, the invisible and potential social harm caused by violent terrorist crimes is far greater than these tangible harm. Because terrorist crimes can leave a long-term psychological shadow on countless people and have a great impact on people's spiritual, psychological, moral and social life. As horvath said, terrorists use mental and psychological terror to induce people's potential fear and anxiety.

2. Crimes have political motives and purposes. 1937 The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism clearly lists this crime as an extraditable crime and is not regarded as a political crime. If you don't extradite, you must prosecute. This is actually a legal provision based on the objective need to combat this kind of crime, which depoliticizes this kind of crime. Theoretically, western criminology theorists generally include such crimes in the category of political crimes. Because the motive and purpose of terrorism using violence are political, and the goal is to oppose the country and society. It is precisely because this kind of crime belongs to political crime in theory and has great social harm that it is not treated as a political crime in practice. China and most countries in the world have done so. When talking about the political motives and purposes of terrorism, Schneider believes that terrorists divide the world into friends and enemies according to a very primitive black-and-white model. Good and evil. ..... These terrorists intend to awaken the "revolutionary will" and "violent consciousness" of the masses through violent actions. Terrorists believe that through their terrorist activities, they can achieve the following goals: to make the country weak and shake people's trust in the country; Induce the state and the government to overreact, so as to draw the masses to their side; ..... Terrorists use violence to achieve propaganda effect, so as to recruit new terrorists. Terrorists always dream of achieving the above goals. In their view, even if the above goals are not achieved, at least some people will be alert and dissatisfied with the government. It is their goal to let the government show weakness to them. Therefore, the government must not show weakness in dealing with violent terrorist crimes, and must not let violent terrorist crimes form a climate. Because terrorism is to impose one's will on the country and society. Although the violent terrorist activities of terrorists can directly target many uncertain targets, in the final analysis, the ultimate goal is a government. Therefore, the motive and purpose of violent terrorist crimes are political.

The direct purpose of crime is not the victim, but the public opinion, so there is a special choice for the object of violence. When terrorists commit violence, they usually attack another target by hurting a direct victim, thus forcing the other side to make concessions in favor of their demands. Schneider said that generally speaking, a terrorist act involves at least three aspects, namely, the criminal, the victim and the real target who hopes to gain psychological pressure through violent actions. Such a target is usually a certain government, trying to force this government to take actions that are in their interest through public opinion around the world and at home. In order to achieve their goals, terrorists attach great importance to the dissemination of news media. It is their life and obligation to publicize the news media. Generally speaking, terrorists can't achieve the expected propaganda effect. However, the dramatic and emotional reports of terrorism in the news media have increased the weight of terrorist activities and prompted the society to overreact in the fight against terrorist crimes. On the other hand, the news media exaggerates terrorist events and caters to the interests of the audience and readers, which happens to be used by terrorists, and some journalists are involved and even become terrorists. In order to achieve their goals, terrorists often make special and cautious choices about the targets they directly attack. Generally speaking, the targets they choose are threats to the government, or can cause big news and have a sensational effect in society and the public, such as national politicians, celebrities, important facilities, important gatherings, festivals and so on.

Crime is usually international. Criminology theory holds that terrorists are instigated by the government or organizations opposed to the government. In modern society, terrorism is obviously international from the target to the scope of activities. Domestic terrorism is supported by foreign governments or organizations, or one country's terrorist activities target another country. In addition to targeting the government, the motive of violent terrorist crimes committed by ethnic separatists also includes trying to gain the support of international forces.

Problems needing attention in combating violent terrorist crimes

Marxists have always opposed all terrorist activities, do not support terrorism in any form or nature, and are not soft on violent terrorist crimes that endanger the country and society, and must be resolutely cracked down. In the struggle against violent terrorist crimes, we should pay attention to the following issues:

We should fully realize that the struggle against violent terrorist crimes is a serious political struggle. It is a principle that violent terrorist crimes should not be regarded as political crimes. However, in order to understand the importance of this struggle politically and improve the consciousness of this struggle, we must understand this struggle politically.

We should give full play to the superiority of the socialist system and leave no room for violent terrorist crimes. There will be no concessions or negotiations on the issue of violent terrorist crimes. Do not make any propaganda reports on violent terrorist crimes. Strict border inspection, cut off the external contact of violent terrorist crimes. Strengthen the construction of grass-roots political power and create a contingent of cadres who are firm and politically reliable and can resolutely crack down on violent terrorist crimes that engage in ethnic division.

Strengthen the education of national unity for young people and let them understand the importance of national unity. The education of national unity should be started from an early age to improve the moral level and social responsibility of young people.

We should make full use of relevant international and domestic laws and regulations to crack down on all kinds of violent terrorist crimes. From the perspective of domestic law, the new criminal law of our country clearly defines terrorist crimes, which provides a legal basis for combating violent terrorist crimes. We should confidently use criminal law to combat any form of violent terrorist crimes. Internationally, in view of the harm of terrorism to human society, many international legal documents have been formulated over the years, providing legal weapons for combating various terrorist crimes. We should make full use of these laws and regulations.

Deal with legal issues with a clear political mind. According to the criminal law of our country, all violent terrorist crimes are common criminal crimes prohibited by law. However, the motives and purposes of criminals are not only political, they sometimes confuse them with political issues by using some sensitive issues, such as religious and ethnic issues, which complicate the problems. We should be highly vigilant about this.