To Protect and To Serve Policing in an Age of Terrorism [Hardcover]

• It provides the first comprehensive assessment of the role of the police in homeland security functions, the effectiveness of strategies, the impacts of homeland security threats on police organization, and on the relationships between police and community.
  
• The book's authors include some of the best known scholars in policing and in the area of policing terrorism brought together by the National Institute of Justice and the Ministry of Public Security in Israel to provide cutting edge discussion of the challenges presented by terrorism for police in democratic societies.
  
• Each chapter includes not only an up to date survey of the literature in the areas covered, but also a discussion what we need to know to develop better policies and practices.

The threat of terrorism is a key issue in police agencies worldwide. This unique book brings together American and Israeli policing scholars who pool their knowledge to shed light on recent developments in policing and what future trends to expect.

I. Introduction

The Steering Committee will write an introduction to this volume that would seek to identify the importance of examining the topic of policing in an age of terrorism and beyond. What factors made it critical to develop this work, and what type of contribution do we hope that this volume will make. The introduction would also trace the major themes of the previous decade to put these issues in context, and raise a series of questions that are linked to the chapters. This introductory chapter should explain why we have selected the chapters included and how they relate to each other to form a cogent thematic volume.

Paper 1: The Threat of Terrorism in Democratic Societies: An Assessment

What is terrorism? What forms does it take? What new social anl³%