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The Dynamics of a Terrorist Targeting Process

Anders B. Breivik and the 22 July Attacks in Norway

By: Cato Hemmingby,Tore Bjørgo

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The Dynamics of a Terrorist Targeting Process

Anders B. Breivik and the 22 July Attacks in Norway

By: Cato Hemmingby,Tore Bjørgo

This book provides an in-depth analysis of probably the most horrific solo terrorist operation the world has ever seen. On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people when he bombed the Government District in Oslo, before he conducted a shooting attack against a political youth camp at Utøya. The main focus of the book is on the operational aspects of the events, particularly the target selection and decision-making process. Why did Breivik choose the targets he finally attacked, what influenced his decision-making and how did he do it? Using unique source material, providing details never published before, the authors accurately explain how even this ruthless terrorist acted under a number of constraints in a profoundly dynamic process. This momentous work is a must read for scholars, students and practitioners within law enforcement, intelligence, security and terrorism studies.

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210

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Springer

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ISBN 10

1137579978

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9781137579973

Preventing Crime

A Holistic Approach

By: Tore Bjørgo

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Preventing Crime

A Holistic Approach

By: Tore Bjørgo

Traditional "schools" of crime prevention, like the criminal justice model, social crime prevention or situational crime prevention, have proved to be too narrow and do not combine well with other approaches. However, each of these models provides important insights and contributions for reducing crime. By extracting the main preventive mechanisms of these diverse approaches, this book develops a more holistic, general model that consists of nine preventive mechanisms: building normative barriers to crime, reducing recruitment, deterrence, disruption, incapacitation, protecting vulnerable targets, reducing benefits of crime, reducing harm, and facilitating desistance. The measures to activate the preventive mechanisms may differ according to the type of crime, as may the actors in charge of implementing the relevant measures. However, Tore Bjørgo demonstrates how his model of crime prevention can be effectively applied to diverse forms of crime, from domestic burglaries to criminal youth gangs and driving under the influence to organized crime and terrorism. In doing so, this important book will be of interest to scholars and students of policing, security studies and criminology, as well as practitioners and policy-makers.

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418

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1137560487

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9781137560483

Strategies for Preventing Terrorism

By: T. Bjorgo,Tore Bjørgo

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Strategies for Preventing Terrorism

By: T. Bjorgo,Tore Bjørgo

This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to terrorism.

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131

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ISBN 10

1137355085

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9781137355089

Racist Violence in Europe

By: Rob Witte,Tore Bjorgo

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Racist Violence in Europe

By: Rob Witte,Tore Bjorgo

All over Europe, asylum-seekers, immigrants and minorities are increasingly finding themselves under violent attack. Who are the perpetrators? What are their motives? To what extent are right-wing or neo-Nazi organizations involved? How do the authorities and the police respond? What are the roles of the media, the public opinion and anti-racist movements? What can be done to stop the violence? These are questions addressed in this volume by some of Europe's leading experts on racism and racist violence.

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