NCJ Number
222426
Journal
Crime Prevention and Community Safety Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Dated: April 2008 Pages: 126-139
Date Published
April 2008
Length
14 pages
Annotation
This paper describes preliminary findings of a research project on the attractiveness of targets for terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey and its relationship to situational crime prevention and terrorism prevention.
Abstract
A description is provided of an initial application of the rating scheme, EVIL DONE, which was developed to assess the attractiveness of specific sites to terrorist attacks. Rooted in crime prevention principles, the rating scheme is intended to help officials sort through a seemingly endless array of places that might be attacked by terrorists. While this initial effort to apply EVIL DONE is modest and flawed, it is believed to be potentially useful in several respects that will be enhanced by followup work. Like crime, terrorist attacks can be prevented by reducing opportunities through situational prevention. In this paper, a target rating system developed by Clarke and Newman (2006), EVIL DONE was applied to targets in Istanbul, Turkey. The paper summarizes a preliminary application of the main elements of this technique to rate targets in Istanbul. The paper concludes with a description of subsequent plans for expanding this rating scheme to a larger number of targets in Turkey. Turkey has suffered a large number of attacks justifying it as an appropriate physical environment to apply this research agenda. Tables, figure, and references