Terrorism, crime, and public policy /
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| Author / Creator: | Forst, Brian. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 495 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814694 |
| Summary: | Terrorism, Crime, and Public Policy describes the problem of terrorism; compares it to other forms of aggression, particularly crime and war; and discusses policy options for dealing with the problem. It focuses on the causes of terrorism with the aim of understanding its roots and providing insights toward policies that will serve to prevent it. The book serves as a single-source reference on terrorism and as a platform for more in-depth study, with a set of discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Individual chapters focus on: the nature of terrorism, theories of aggression and terrorism, the history of terrorism, globalization vs. clash, the role of religion, nonreligious extremism and terrorism, the role of technology, terrorism throughout the modern world, responses to terrorism, fear of terrorism, short-term approaches and long-term strategies for preventing terrorism, balancing security and rights to liberty and privacy, and pathways to a safer and saner 21st century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 495 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-477) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511650208 0511650205 0511454589 9780511454585 0511455615 9780511455612 9780511816314 0511816316 0511568851 9780511568855 9780521859240 0521859247 9780521676427 0521676428 0511646119 9780511646119 9786612390562 6612390565 1282390562 9781282390560 |