Strategies for Preventing Terrorism [Hardcover]

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.Foreword; Alex P. Schmid Preface Part I: A Theory for Practice 1. Introduction - Definitions of concepts and analytical approaches - Models of crime prevention - Theoretical considerations on preventive mechanisms - Nine generic mechanisms for preventing crime - From model to strategy Part II: The Preventive Mechanisms Applied 2. Norm setting against violence and terrorism 3. Reducing the emergence of terrorism and violent radicalisation 4. Deterring involvement in terrorism 5. Disrupting planned terrorist attacks 6. Protecting vulnerable targets 7. Reducing the harmful consequences of terrorist attacks 8. Reducing the rewards from acts of terrorism 9. Incapacitation - eliminating the capacity of (potential) terrorists to cause harm 10. Disengagement from terrorism and violent extremism 11. Conclusion

By providing such a comprehensive, systematic and integrated framework to identify the components that constitute an effective counter-terrorism campaign, this short book is bound to be considered as one of the classical works in the discipline of counterterrorism studies. - Perspectives on Terrorism

Strategies for Preventing Terrorism is an important book for those who study terrorism and terrorists. But it is more than that. Because of its effective integration into mainstream criminology and criminal justice practice, this book should have wide

readership among scholars and practitioners. Bjorgo builds on a number of theories (deterrence, life course, rational choice) and study topics (recruitment and joining groups, group process, desistance) that [will] resonate with criminologists and criminal justice

policy makers and practitionel£.