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Outsmarting the terrorists
- Title
- Outsmarting the terrorists / Ronald V. Clarke, Graeme R. Newman.
- Author
- Clarke, R. V. G.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Newman, Graeme R.
- Description
- ix, 303 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "America cannot protect its citizens from future terrorist events by reacting after the fact. Instead, measures must be taken to actually stop terrorists before they can attack. In this important volume, Clarke and Newman argue that government anti-terrorism policy must pay much more attention to reducing opportunities for terrorist attacks by protecting vulnerable targets, controlling the tools and weapons used by terrorists, and removing the conditions of everyday life that make these attacks possible. While some of this work is currently being done on an ad-hoc basis, the government has no trained professionals to oversee the work, no recognized methods to guide it, and limited experience on which to draw in conducting it. Outsmarting the Terrorists addresses these deficiencies, laying out a systematic approach for reducing opportunities for terrorism."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Global crime and justice, 1931-7239
- Uniform Title
- Global crime and justice (Westport, Conn.)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-291) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The gap in our defenses -- 2. Think terrorist -- 3. The key role of opportunity -- 4. Airliner hijackings : the lessons of reducing opportunity -- 5. Suicide bombings, step by step -- 6. Dynamics of terrorist decisions -- 7. Targets -- 8. Weapons -- 9. Tools -- 10. Facilitating conditions : the nuclear example -- 11. Targets - near and far -- 12. Taking it to them - when far is near -- 13. Terror in three English cities -- 14. Confusing near and far : crisis planning in the United States -- 15. A framework for prevention -- 16. Situational techniques and publicity -- 17. Implementing a program of situational prevention -- 18. Becoming smarter.
- ISBN
- 0275992306 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006021060
- 9780275992309
- OCLC
- OCM70208039
- SCSB-5280738
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries