2432.3	Assessment
Research Question (Clear, unambiguous)	It makes sense to connect the issue of youth recruitment to terrorist organizations with the earlier work on youth recruitment into juvenile delinquency.  Unfortunately, after this insight, this project does not seem to develop a workable research question.
Relevant Literature	The relevant literatures need to be identified and pursued.
Causal Interpretations (clear, all parts defined, mechanisms, controls, plausible)	These causal suggestions are weak.  Yes, it is true that certain personality states and enduring psychological conditions probably render people more vulnerable to recruitment, but these are not like to be reducible to "psychological distress" or "mental disorder".  The family environment of adolescents is also likely to be important, but the status of a "broken" home is a crude indicator.  Parental divorce by itself does not tell us much about the quality of a child's home life.
Data (variables, sample, comparison)	The data mentioned again seem of doubtful usefulness for the apparent project.
Research Value	Identifying conditions that put young people at risk to terrorist recruitment is important, but much of the answer is probably fairly well known.  That is why terrorists can recruit successfully.  This proposed project is too ill defined to assess what it could contribute.
Overall	Interesting area, no real research project.