Overview
- One of the only resources currently available on high-threat decision-making in a law enforcement context
- Timely and important topic as it relates to a police response during extreme situations
- Applicable in multiple high-threat decision-making domains
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
High-threat decision-making is intrinsic to many domains and carries an individual, organizational, and social responsibility. Tactical and incident commanders make decisions in the high-threat law enforcement context of hostage rescue, armed barricaded suspects, and armed suicidal individuals that can result in successful or catastrophic outcomes. This book describes the experiences and methods of making decisions in these types of extreme environments.
The presented research addresses learning strategies that could better prepare leaders for information processing in any high-threat domain, while optimizing speed and accuracy in decision-making. This volume emphasizes the role of adaptive expertise in decision-making, and explains how mental models of recurring patterns are created and retrieved, and why they are necessary for effective situational assessments.
This book is ideal for police commanders and executives, emergency response managers, first responders, and criminology researchers. It is also well-suited for professionals seeking further information about improved high-threat decision-making strategies.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Stuart Meyers, Ed.D. is the CEO of OpTac International, Inc., and has been the Director of SWAT Operations and Training in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Program Director and Assistant Professor of Public Protection & Safety at Louisiana State University, Eunice. He is the author of the books, SWAT Operations and Critical Incidents: Why People Die, SWAT Fitness, A Guide To Police Sniping, and Police Sniper Administrative Policy & Training. Stuart continues developing elite SWAT teams, writing policy and protocols, conducting tactical team evaluations, and teaching a wide range of public safety, criminal justice, homeland security, emergency management, and leadership courses throughout the world. He has trained domestic and foreign counter-terrorist teams, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Special Forces, and federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel across the globe. He holds a Doctor of Education degree in Adult Learning and Leadership (AEGIS) from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Harvard University. His extensive executive problem-solving and special operations experience have made him a sought-after special consultant for domestic and foreign governments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High-Threat Decisions
Book Subtitle: When It’s a Matter of Life and Death
Authors: Stuart Meyers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19333-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19332-3Published: 30 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19335-4Published: 01 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19333-0Published: 28 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 159
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime Control and Security, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general