Reducing Terrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention

"This book should appeal to a wide audience.... An important contribution to both terrorism prevention and criminal justice literature."―Julie Kiernan Coon, International Criminal Justice ReviewThe authors explore the application of situational crime prevention (SCP) techniques to the battle against terrorism. "It is little wonder," the editors assert in their introduction, "that SCP should emerge as a significant approach to solving the problem of terrorism. It is an approach that is so practical and so focused on protecting individuals, locations and groups from victimization. It has always been primarily concerned with making our world safe and secure."CONTENTS: Introduction―the Editors. Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Insurgency in Iraq―S.D. Johnson and A. Braithwaite. Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-Level Counterinsurgency―D. Kilkullen EVIL DONE―R. Boba. Bioterrorism: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach―W.R. Clark. An Application of Situational Crime Prevention to Terrorist Hostage Taking and Kidnapping: A Case Study of 23 Korean Hostages in Afghanistan―M. Yun. Preventing Deadly Encounters Between Law Enforcement and American Far-Rightists―J. Freilich and S.M. Chermak Situational Crime Prevention and Nonviolent Terrorism: A "Soft" Approach Against Ideologically Motivated Tax Refusal―R. Belli and J. Freilich Exploring Parallels between Situational Crime Prevention and Noncriminological Theories for Reducing Terrorist Risk―J. Clare and F. Morgan. How to Lose the War on Terror: Lessons of a 30 year War in Northern Ireland―N. Ross