By Leslie W. Kennedy, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Alexis R. Kennedy (auth.)
ISBN-10: 1461455553
ISBN-13: 9781461455554
ISBN-10: 1461455561
ISBN-13: 9781461455561
This short specializes in translational criminology practices as they relate to counter-terrorism and fatherland safeguard. The paintings offers a close and functional exam of ways international threats (such as, terrorism and cybercrime) are controlled via neighborhood reaction. It covers rising ideas in info assortment systems, inter-agency cooperation, and new analytical ideas together with risk-terrain modeling. furthermore, it provides a typical method, together with steps in danger overview, threat administration, and decision-making, that may be used to border and learn international and native threats. The authors study those concerns utilizing examples of the way legislations enforcement spoke back to express safety threats together with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, the 2003 terrorist assault in Istanbul, Turkey, and the 2010 Stuxnet assault at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran.
This paintings expands on latest literature masking the influence that globalization has on move nationwide threats, drawing on disciplines regarding criminology, equivalent to diplomacy and political technological know-how.
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However, despite the repeated onslaughts, the patterns of behavior have been fairly similar, with mobile attackers carrying bombs. Even the apparent simplicity of these types of attacks creates demanding organizational strains on these groups. Recruitment in itself is a risky activity requiring secrecy and capital. Terrorists must also obtain materials for making bombs, conduct surveillance on their targets, and initiate their attack without being flagged. At any one of these steps, there is danger of detection.
So, too, are arms smuggling, identity theft, and trafficking in human beings (Sacco & Kennedy, 2010, p. 344). The elements of the crime are rationally ordered and directed towards the pursuit of profit (Gottschalk, 2009). It is the economic component, rather than the motivation of the offender, that gives this kind of crime its distinct character (Bouchard & Wilkins, 2009). What can we learn about how enterprise crime groups function that would help us understand terror groups? What patterns appear in these operations that are necessary in any enterprise to bring about success?
Based on these four assumptions, traditional law enforcement tactics suggest that crime investigations should focus on the physical scene of the crime in its geographical jurisdiction and utilize witnesses and crime scene evidence to identify the perpetrator and the harm inflicted on the victims (Brenner, 2004). In the cyber world, however, crimes are not confined to any regional or national boundaries. Cyber-attacks can be committed by a person, a group of people, businesses, organizations, a government, or a computer in any part of the world against a person, group of people, businesses, organizations, a government, or a computer in any part of the world.