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handle is hein.crs/govenva0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ____ ~ Research Service HSA@20 Episode Companion: Domestic Terrorism December 26, 2023 This Insight accompanies the Domestic Terrorism episode of The Homeland Security Act at 20 podcast series and includes background information on the issues discussed during the podcast. Defining Terms The federal government defines terrorism as well as domestic and international terrorism in agency policy documents and in statute in different places. Terrorism Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) policy documents define terrorism as an ideologically-driven criminal act, including threats made to or acts of violence against specific victims, in furtherance of a domestic political and/or social goal. FBI Statutory Terrorism Definitions: 18 U.S.C. §2331 Statutory definitions of domestic and international terrorism contain a common thread: Activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State (or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State); and appear to be intended to: intimidate or coerce a civilian population; influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping. For an act to be domestic terrorism, it must occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States (18 U.S.C. §2331(5)). The specific statutory definition of domestic terrorism establishes it as a potential descriptor of a range of criminal acts. There is no federal criminal statute that establishes criminal penalties solely for domestic terrorism. For activities to be international terrorism, they must occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12293 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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