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Understanding Terrorism: Groups, Strategies, and Responses 3rd Edition
Author(s): James M. Poland (Author)
- Publisher: Pearson
- Publication Date: January 13, 2010
- Edition: 3rd
- Language: English
- Print length: 312 pages
- ISBN-10: 0132457768
- ISBN-13: 9780132457767
Book Description
UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM: GROUPS, STRATEGIES, AND RESPONSES, 3/eis 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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Understanding Terrorism: Groups, Strategies, and Responses 3rd Edition, 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.
