Review by Choice Review
This monograph has the ambitious goal of synthesizing the major models of crime prevention, creating a general model with nine elements, and applying that model to the problem of terrorism. The nine elements--norms, reducing recruitment, deterrence, disruption, reducing opportunities, reducing consequences, reducing rewards, incapacitation, and desistance and rehabilitation--are each explored in turn, with attention to how each can provide an element of a broad, comprehensive strategy with multiple mechanisms. The general model is logical, and the options explored create the promise of a multilayered system for the prevention of terrorism. Bjrrgo (police science, Norwegian Police Univ. College) says that future volumes will apply the model to a range of other crimes. Judging from the success of this work, this is something to look forward to. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. D. McIntosh Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
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