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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc REDUCING TERRORISM THROUGH SITUATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION by Professor Joshua D. Freilich
This volume applies the principles of situational crime prevention (SCP) to terrorism and it features cutting-edge theoretical and empirical pieces. Chapters focus on: terrorism by right-wing and left-wing extremists in the U.S. the conflicts in Iraq and Northern Ireland foreign policy through an SCP lens intelligence-led policing the crimes of kidnapping and hostage taking ideologically motivated tax refusal and cybercrime. Sources of original data include research projects such as the government-funded American Terrorism Study and the U.S. Extremist Crime Study. Derek Cornishs script method is applied in a number of case studies and Ronald Clarke and Graeme Newmans EVIL DONE concept is operationalized and refined. The authors represent a mix of leading SCP scholars and noted terrorism researchers.