David Weisburd, Thomas E. Feucht, Idit Hakimi, Lois Felson Mock, Simon Perry
![To Protect and Serve: Policing in an Age of Terrorism and Beyond David Weisburd, Thomas E. Feucht, Idit Hakimi, Lois Felson Mock, Simon Perry]( "To Protect and Serve: Policing in an Age of Terrorism and Beyond David Weisburd, Thomas E. Feucht, Idit Hakimi, Lois Felson Mock, Simon Perry")
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Editorial Review:
Since 9/11, the threat of terrorism has become a key issue in police agencies throughout the world. How should the police change to counter terrorism threats? What implications do such changes have for traditional responsibilities of the police like combating crime, or in the resources or focus of modern police agencies? To Protect and Serve: Policing in an Age of Terrorism and Beyond brings together distinguished American and Israeli policing scholars, who pool their knowledge and experience to shed light on what has happened to policing since the turn of the century, and what trends can be expect over the next few decades.
To Protect and Serve begins by asking what terrorism is and what forms it takes, and discusses how it raises new questions for democratic societies and democratic policing. While many scholars and lay people take for granted the fact that the police should play a central role in the fight against terrorism, the volume also examines critically the rationale for the police role. Accordingly a chapter also examines the role that the police should play in the complex task of preventing, and responding to terror, and responding to the outcomes of terror? Another chapter begins with a description of the specific strategies and tactics that police agencies have developed to deal with terrorism (and the outcomes of terrorism), and assesses what works both in preventing terrorism and in dealing with its consequences. A critical issue that has received comparatively little attention is addressed in another chapter, which examines how police agencies responded organizationally to the added responsibilities of fighting terrorism. Finally, the book also examines the impact of fighting terrorism on minority and majority communities, and the questions of legitimacy that are raised by new roles that police take on.
