Understanding Terrorism: Groups, Stategies, and Responses - Couverture souple

Poland, James M.

 
9780132457767: Understanding Terrorism: Groups, Stategies, and Responses
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0132457768 ISBN 13 : 9780132457767
Editeur : Pearson, 2010

Synopsis

UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM: GROUPS, STRATEGIES, AND RESPONSES, 3/e is fully updated and brings together today’s most crucial lessons and discoveries for analyzing terrorism and terrorist strategies, and defining effective countermeasures. It brings together both theory and practice, helping students realistically assess threats; understand terrorist acts and their impact; and examine police and governmental responses. This Third Edition reflects today’s latest trends, including an escalation of suicide bombings, increased terrorist sophistication, the decline in state-sponsored terrorism, terrorist resistance in Iraq, and the evolution of antiterrorism legislation. It also presents new coverage of hardening targets, anti-terrorism technology, and international cooperation.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM: GROUPS, STRATEGIES, AND RESPONSES, 3/e is fully updated and brings together today’s most crucial lessons and discoveries for analyzing terrorism and terrorist strategies, and defining effective countermeasures. It brings together both theory and practice, helping students realistically assess threats; understand terrorist acts and their impact; and examine police and governmental responses. This Third Edition reflects today’s latest trends, including an escalation of suicide bombings, increased terrorist sophistication, the decline in state-sponsored terrorism, terrorist resistance in Iraq, and the evolution of antiterrorism legislation. It also presents new coverage of hardening targets, anti-terrorism technology, and international cooperation.

Quatrième de couverture

Understanding Terrorism: Groups, Strategies, and Responses, Third Edition is written for criminal justice and social science students, professionals in the criminal justice system, and any reader wishing to gain more information on the phenomenon of "terrorism." This book explores the various analytical approaches to the study of terrorism: identifying terrorist groups, reviewing terrorist tactics, and examining police and governmental responses to reduce or control the incidence of terrorism.

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Éditeur
Pearson
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0132457768
ISBN 13 
9780132457767
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Riccardo Bacigalupo
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