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The Impacts of Policing Terrorism on Society: Lessons from Israel and the US

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The phenomenon of terror became widespread in the last decade, especially after 9-11 events and the attacks in Madred and London, emphasizing the severity of this threat to the western society and the challenge they bring on police-community relations. This chapter tries to address three major questions: first, what kinds of methods do the police use in order to reinforce public feelings of security, safety and legitimacy; second, to what extent do the public and the police work together to co-produce justice and address terrorism; and third, what are the public’s priorities in relation to the policing of terrorism?

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    Intelligence is the product of a process that includes collection (of information), evaluation, collation, analysis, and dissemination. Information (which is what we get from the public) should be considered raw data, and it is not considered intelligence until it has gone through the entire process.

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  1. Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Badi Hasisi, Geoffrey P. Alpert & Dan Flynn

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Inst. Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel

    David Weisburd

  2. National Institute of Justice, US Department of Justice, Seventh St. NW., 810, Washington, 20531, U.S.A.

    Thomas Feucht

  3. Ministry of Public Security, Jerusalem, 91181, Israel

    Idit Hakimi

  4. National Institute of Justice, US Department of Justice, Seventh St. NW., 810, Washington, 20531, U.S.A.

    Lois Mock

  5. Embassy of Israel, International Dr. 3514, Washington, 20008, U.S.A.

    Simon Perry

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Hasisi, B., Alpert, G.P., Flynn, D. (2009). The Impacts of Policing Terrorism on Society: Lessons from Israel and the US. In: Weisburd, D., Feucht, T., Hakimi, I., Mock, L., Perry, S. (eds) To Protect and To Serve. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73685-3_7

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