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  title info:
    title: Outsmarting the terrorists
  name:
    name part: Clarke, R. V. G.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Newman, Graeme R.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Given that the war on terror is currently being fought the way crime typically is-after the fact-this country cannot protect its citizens from future terrorist events solely in this way. Instead, measures must be taken to actually stop terrorists before they can attack. Here, the authors 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 by removing the conditions of everyday life that make these attacks possible. While some of this work is done on an ad hoc basis, there are no recognized methods to guide the work, there is limited experience on which to draw, and the government has no trained professionals to oversee the work. In this book, the authors address these deficiencies, and lay out a systematic approach for reducing opportunities for terrorism. The current "take-them-out mindset" may be the main reason why reducing opportunities for terrorism has been so neglected by governments, but another important reason is that the task seems so overwhelmingly difficult. How can we possibly protect every vulnerable target or person? How can we control all the everyday tools that terrorists must use in carrying out their attacks? How can we control their weapons when we cannot even keep guns out the hands of ordinary criminals? In this book, the authors show that these tasks are indeed manageable. They take readers through the methods for preventing terrorism and the policies that will assist in this important work. They show that in order to protect the country from terrorists, security forces must do what the terrorists do: identify vulnerable targets, analyze their specific weaknesses, consider the tools and weapons needed to attack, and assess access to the targets. Once these steps are taken, security agencies can then provide appropriate protection, limit accessibility, anticipate the forces needed to c…
  table of contents: Preface -- 1. The gap in our defenses -- Part I. Analyzing our vulnerabilities. 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 -- Part II. The opportunity structure of terrorism. 7. Targets -- 8. Weapons -- 9. Tools -- 10. Facilitating conditions : the nuclear example -- Part III. Vulnerability at home and overseas. 11. Targets--near and far -- 12. Taking it to them--when near is far -- 13. Terror in three English cities -- 14. Confusing near and far : crisis planning in the United States -- Part IV. Responding to the threat. 15. A framework for prevention -- 16. Situational techniques and publicity -- 17. Implementing a program of situational prevention -- 18. Becoming smarter -- Notes -- References -- Index..
  note: Ronald V. Clarke, Graeme R. Newman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-291) and index.
  note: 20979
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    geographic: United States
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: National security
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
  subject:
    topic: Security, International
  classification: HV6431 .C475 2006
  classification: 363.325/160973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Global crime and justice (Westport, Conn.)
  identifier: 0275992306 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780275992309 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780275992309 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9789780275990 309 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2006021060
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021060.html
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021060.html
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 060623
    record change date: 20151104105937.0
    record identifier: in00002206682