ABSTRACT
From the best and brightest of CRC Press’ unrivaled pool of author experts comes the ultimate reader on terrorism. This volume serves as a perfect complement to any course in homeland security, terrorism, or criminal justice curricula because it provides not only a history and background of terrorism, but also covers important policy issues; critical infrastructure protection as it relates to terrorism; terrorism funding; global and domestic groups; transnational terrorist activities, surveillance, planning, and tactic and target selection; weapons of mass destruction; intelligence; antiterrorism efforts; terrorism crisis management and responder issues; regional security issues; and current trends in terrorism and counterterrorism. Unlike other books on the market that cover only theory or history, this volume considers the essentials of terrorism as well as real-world threats and solutions as to how to counter, prepare for, mitigate, manage, and respond to terrorist threats and acts. As such, it is far more practical than the average survey book-this is practitioner knowledge from the field straight into the reader’s hands.
