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Case Studies of Organizational Learning in Five Terrorist Groups
Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist groups increase their effectiveness and become more dangerous. Learning is the link between what a ...
How Should We Decide what Hypothetical Threats to Worry About?
Concerns about how terrorists might attack in the future are central to the design of security efforts to protect both individual targets and the nati...
Understanding Terrorist Efforts to Overcome Defensive Technologies
Technology systems play a key role within a larger, integrated strategy to target groups' efforts and protect the public from the threat of terrorist ...
Understanding how terrorist groups learn may aid in developing strategies to combat terrorist activities...
Lessons from the Experiences of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
With terrorism still prominent on the U.S. agenda, whether the country's prevention efforts match the threat the United States faces continues to be c...
Organizational Learning in Terrorist Groups and Its Implications for Combating Terrorism
Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist groups become more effective and dangerous. Learning is the link between what a group wants to do a...
Deterrence--a central feature of counterterrorism security systems and a major factor in the cost-effectiveness of many security programs--is not well...
A Social Network Analysis of Online Activity
The authors reviewed literature on White identity terrorism and racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism (REMVE) and analyzed social media d...
A Multidisciplinary Look at the Creation of a U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency
Whether U.S. terrorism-prevention efforts match the threat continues to be central in policy debate. Part of this debate is whether the United States ...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Cruise Missiles
Changes in technology and adversary behavior will invariably produce new threats that must be assessed by defense and homeland security planners. An e...
Balancing Approaches to an Uncertain Terrorist Threat
The uncertain nature of the terrorist threat is a fundamental challenge in the design of counterterrorism policy. The author recommends a capabilities...
As part of the Integrated Medical Science series, this book includes all the core concepts a student needs to know, with emphasis on the basic princip...
Lessons from Nation-Building Missions
RAND researchers analyzed the health components of seven post-World War II nation-building efforts conducted after major conflicts-Germany, Japan, Som...
U.S. communities depend on reliable, safe, and secure rail systems. Each weekday, more than 12 million passengers take to U.S. railways. This book exp...
The sharing of intelligence and law enforcement information is a central part of U.S. domestic security efforts, yet there are concerns about the effe...
Under the American federal system, most law is cast as state statutes and local ordinances; accordingly, most law enforcement is the responsibility of...
Evaluation of Process and Effects
In partnership with the Army Medical Department, RAND worked to implement clinical practice guidelines. This report evaluates the asthma guideline dem...
Lessons Learned from Terrorist Attacks
In December 2001, a conference held in New York City brought together individuals with firsthand knowledge of emergency responses to terrorist attacks...
Identifying High-priority Technology and Other Needs for Improving Court Operations and Outcomes
The U.S. courts sector is challenged by high caseloads, resource constraints, and other trends, and this report seeks to frame an innovation agenda by...
Community Views of Safety and Health Risks and Personal Protection Needs
Firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency medical service responders play a critical role in protecting people and property in the event o...
Findings of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group
The Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group (CJTFG) deliberated on the effects that major technology and social trends could have on criminal ju...
An Emerging Public Health Issue
Antimicrobials -- a set of agents which includes antibiotics, synthetic anti-effective drugs, antibacterial agents, and disinfectants -- had had signi...
The Need for Assessing "response Reliability" as Part of Homeland Security Planning
This paper frames a broad set of questions about how preparedness can be meaningfully measured and lays out some of the ingredients needed to answer t...
Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector
The U.S. corrections enterprise is challenged by a variety of demographic, societal, and fiscal trends, and this report seeks to frame an innovation a...
In Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History, author Brian Jackson describes his personal experiences with psilocy...
Executive Summary
Researchers examined past U.S. countering violent extremism and terrorism prevention efforts and explored policy options to strengthen terrorism preve...
Part of a series examining the technology competition between security organizations and terrorist organizations, this report focuses on understanding...
The ability to measure emergency preparedness is critical for policy analysis in homeland security. Yet it remains difficult to know how prepared a re...
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Safety management in disaster and terrorism response
During and after such events as terrorist attacks, hurricanes, earthquakes, large industrial incidents, and other natural disasters, responders face t...
An Overview of Trends, Challenges, and Current Approaches
The authors address the challenges posed by a significant increase in anonymous social media-based threats against K-12 schools in the United States a...
This study reports on strategic planning activities supporting the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the area of information technology, collecti...
Developing Approaches to Measure the Effects of Information-Sharing on Criminal Justice Outcomes
In this report, researchers explore measurement methods to assess how information-sharing affects criminal justice outcomes and offer lessons for futu...
The authors assess the costs associated with realistic threats to domestic, nonmilitary uses of the Global Positioning System (GPS), and consider poss...
A Two-way Street ; Strengthening Trust Between Police and the Public in an Era of Increasing Transparency
Findings from the Literature and Interviews with Stakeholders Across the K-12 School Community
Despite the consensus about the importance of violence prevention efforts in kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) schools, research has revealed lit...
Report of the Law Enforcement Futuring Workshop
"This report describes the results of the Law Enforcement Futuring Workshop, which was held at RAND's Washington Office in Arlington, Virginia, from J...
Strengthening the Analytic Foundation for Making Air Transportation Security Decisions
Making aviation security more cost-effective is hampered by considerable uncertainty about the terrorist threat, security system performance, and the ...
Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for Improving Law Enforcement Operations and Outcomes
This report presents the results a 2016 workshop in which a panel of law enforcement experts identifies high-priority needs for innovation in law enfo...