Strategies for Preventing Terrorism [electronic resource] /
Bjørgo, Tore.author.
This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to terrorism.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Alex P. Schmid -- Preface -- A theory for practice? -- Introduction -- The preventive mechanisms applied? -- Norm setting against violence and terrorism -- Reducing the emergence of terrorism and violent radicalisation -- Deterring involvement in terrorism -- Disrupting planned terrorist attacks -- Protecting vulnerable targets -- Reducing the harmful consequences of terrorist attacks -- Reducing the rewards from acts of terrorism -- Incapacitation : eliminating the capacity of (potential) terrorists to cause harm -- Disengagement from terrorism and violent extremism -- Some conclusions? -- Bibliography -- Index.
This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to terrorism.
Police.
Organized crime.
Terrorism.
International relations.
Politics and war.
Criminology.
Policing.
Organized Crime.
Terrorism and Political Violence.
International Relations.
Military and Defence Studies.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.