Practical, Tactical and Legal Perspectives of Terrorism and Hostage-Taking (Criminology Studies, V. 9)

The volatility of hostage-taking events, especially terrorist hostage-takings, requires negotiators and tactical-response teams to face complicated challenges. This text provides tactical information concerning the interactive strategies of hostage negotiations, as well as a comprehensive review of the legal perspectives related to hostage-taking incidents. Details appropriate response to a variety of hostage-taking incidents, concentrating on negotiations and rescue attempts. Gives explicit proposals for training hostage negotiators, and presents detailed case studies of real incidents. Gives suggestions for the news media to follow in reporting these events, and covers the role the courts should play during and after hostage-taking crises. Includes chapter summaries, objectives, and discussion questions. The authors teach criminal justice at California State University-Sacramento, and are veterans of various police and tactical squads. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. Italian psychiatrist and criminal anthropologist Lombroso (d. 1909) is widely acknowledged as the founder of scientific criminology, but his reputation has suffered both because methods and especially standards of precision have outstripped his original work, and also because only readers of Italian had more than fragmentary and often anecdotal access to his ideas. To help alleviate the second problem, 28 of his articles published in English between 1890 and 1929 are presented, along with bibliographic appendices of books and periodical literature pertaining to him and to criminal anthropology. Among the article topics are the physiognomy of the anarchists, atavism and evolution, games among criminals and savages, insane characters in fiction and the drama, and left-handedness and left-sidedness. The text is double spaced. There is no index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Details appropriate response to a variety of hostage-taking incidents, concentrating on negotiations and rescue attempts. Gives explicit proposals for training hostage negotiators, and presents detailed case studies of real incidents. Gives suggestions for the news media to follow in reporting these events, and covers the role the courts should play during and after hostage-taking crises. Includes chapter summaries, objectives, and discussion questions. The authors teach criminal justice at California State University-Sacramento, and are veterans of various police and tactical squads. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) More a collection of essays and other writings than "conversations" per se, this work presents work penned by male prison inmates involved in postsecondary education programs behind prison walls. The collection is presented by Lichtman (English, Columbia College) with the intention of demonstrating the value of such programs. The writings sometimes directly reflect on inmates' experiences with educational programs but more often simply reveal their experiences of prison and education through essays, fiction, and poetry. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)