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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Gap in Our Defenses -- Part I. Analyzing Our Vulnerabilities -- 2. Think Terrorist -- 3. The Key Role of Opportunity -- 4. Airliner Hijackings: The Lessons of Reducing Opportunity -- 5. Suicide Bombings, Step by Step -- 6. Dynamics of Terrorist Decisions -- Part II. The Opportunity Structure of Terrorism -- 7. Targets -- 8. Weapons -- 9. Tools -- 10. Facilitating Conditions: The Nuclear Example -- Part III. Vulnerability at Home and Overseas -- 11. Targets-Near and Far -- 12. Taking It to Them-When Far Is Near -- 13. Terror in Three English Cities -- 14. Confusing Near and Far: Crisis Planning in the United States -- Part IV. Responding to the Threat -- 15. A Framework for Prevention -- 16. Situational Techniques and Publicity -- 17. Implementing a Program of Situational Prevention -- 18. Becoming Smarter -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This volume's contention that regulations have a powerful role in crime control contradicts the prevailing positivism of criminology—that is, the contention that criminality is largely explained by criminals' past experiences. This article draws upon recent critiques of positivism and explains the implications for contemporary criminology. It begins by describing the ideas of a London magistrate, Patrick Colquhoun, about the determinants of crime and the best means of its control. Colquhoun's writings were the first developed discussion of regulating crime, but they were soon eclipsed by positivist thinking. I list numerous weakness of positivism and argue that, instead of seeing offenders' behavior as determined by their past, greater account should be taken of the situational inducements and opportunities to commit crime that they encounter in their everyday lives. Instead of positivism, the dominant model of criminology and crime control should be a neoclassicist, bounded rational choice model, which would introduce situational design and management changes to restrict offenders choices and modify behavior. That change in orientation would open limitless opportunities for criminologists.

chapter 1 Preventing Suicide -- chapter 2 Detoxification of Domestic Gas -- chapter 3 The Toxicity of Car Exhaust -- chapter 4 Firearm Availability and Suicide -- chapter 5 Handgun Control Statutes -- chapter 6 Displacement Between Methods -- chapter 7 Explaining Choice of Method -- chapter 8 Implications for Theory and Prevention.

This collection of case studies, by a distinguished international group of researchers, documents the application of a situational prevention approach to a variety of organised crimes, including: sex trafficking, drug smuggling, corruption, and fraud. The book will be of interest to those tasked with tackling organised crime problems, as well as students of criminology and criminal justice.