NCJ Number
229600
Date Published
2009
Length
21 pages
Annotation
This chapter is intended for local authorities and researchers and presents a general approach for individual target assessment as well as several analysis strategies for assessment of groups of targets in a local community.
Abstract
Resources of local communities are often not spent on preparing for a specific terrorist attack, but more generally on actions that seek to reduce the success of attempted attacks as well as damage if an attack is successful. To assist with this process, this chapter presents a fairly specific, but general, approach for individual target assessment as well as several analysis strategies for assessment of groups of targets in a particular jurisdiction. The unique contribution of this chapter is the breakdown of Clarke and Newman's (2006) "EVIL DONE" factors into a set of items that can be easily scored consistently across targets and among individual analysts. For local authorities, the chapter's goal is to analyze target risk long before a threat is posed or a terrorist attempt is made, as well as to analyze all the potential targets within a community to prioritize prevention strategies and allocation of resources. For researchers, the chapter's goal is to present a methodology that can be used to evaluate targets of different types and across jurisdictions to provide practitioners with context and comparison for their own analyses as well as test the validity and reliability of the methodology itself. Tables, figures, notes, and references (Published Abstract)