Domenico Tosini

Short Biography

Domenico Tosini is a Researcher at the University of Trento (Italy). His research is located at the intersection of political sociology and sociology of law; he has authored papers in these areas for Sociologia del diritto, Quaderni di Sociologia, Studi di Sociologia, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, Contemporary Sociology and Social Science Information. His book Terrorismo e antiterrorismo nel XXI secolo [Terrorism and Counterterrorism in the Twenty-First Century] (Laterza, 2007) argues for a sociological understanding of the rationale behind the terrorist campaigns, with special reference to the sociological analysis of suicide terrorism. Current research involves both theoretical and empirical research on the political culture of Islamist groups such as Al-Qaeda.