{"title":"Teaching analytic objectivity in universities: an aspirational or achievable goal?","authors":"Barry A. Zulauf","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2266729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2266729","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTObjectivity is required by law for intelligence analysts in the U.S. Intelligence Community. Nevertheless, there continues to be a long-standing debate about whether objectivity is attainable, or just an aspiration. A well-designed academic intelligence studies program can provide a forum for that debate to continue, while strengthening graduates to not only produce objective analysis in the workplace after graduation but equip them with the moral courage to maintain objectivity in the face of opposition.KEYWORDS: Analytic objectivityprofessional educationanalytic standardsICD 203IRTPAintelligence studies Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":"136 47","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136351946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligence warning in the corporate sector: the 2013 In Amenas terrorist attack in retrospect","authors":"Michael J. Ard","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2274614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2274614","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe 2013 terrorist attack at the In Amenas, Algeria gas production facility killed 40 innocent people and shook the corporate security industry. Analyzing this event raises important questions about the nature and limitations of intelligence warning for private industry. Corporate security intelligence has been adopted by many companies that desire a ‘decision advantage’, but in this case, it failed to foresee the attack. A seminal report on the attack produced by Statoil (now Equinor) encouraged numerous changes in how companies should protect themselves against severe security threats. One conclusion was that in uncertain and dangerous environments, intelligence cannot be relied upon to reduce uncertainty and provide adequate warning. The Statoil report acknowledges that the joint venture likely would not have gotten the intelligence necessary to warn of an impending attack. The core business is not necessarily focused on the changing threat environment. In this case, even more accurate ‘tactical’ intelligence might not have led to a timely evacuation. Moreover, as the Algerian Army's failure to prevent the In Amenas attack reveals, corporations' risk assessments cannot ignore the severe limitations of their host country security institutions. This case study raises some concerns about overvaluing corporate intelligence’s effectiveness in high-risk security environments.KEYWORDS: TerrorismwarningintelligenceAlgeriaoil and gas industry Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":"32 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134901928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jesse J. Norris, Joseph P. McFall, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk
{"title":"Decision-making in terrorism sting operations: is entrapment driven by the sunk-cost effect and intergroup biases?","authors":"Jesse J. Norris, Joseph P. McFall, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2266712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2266712","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPrevious research has found that entrapment – inducing suspects to commit crimes they were not already predisposed to commit – is widespread in US terrorism sting operations, particularly those involving Muslims and racial minorities. To test whether the sunk cost effect and/or intergroup biases could explain decisions to authorise these operations, we conducted an experiment in which college student and MTurk participants (n = 1009) from the US and India decided whether to approve an operation featuring apparent entrapment. Sunk costs and suspect characteristics were manipulated across experimental conditions. Results for US participants (n = 792) show that high sunk costs increased approval of the operation only for relatively young participants, and only in scenarios with non-Muslim suspects. Scenarios with Muslim suspects yielded higher approval rates for participants who were confident in their decision. Indian participants (n = 217) were more likely than US participants to approve the operation and were unaffected by suspect religion and sunk costs. Results suggest that the sunk cost bias may play some role in entrapment, although other factors, such as outgroup bias, may also contribute to these decisions. The observed cross-cultural differences could result from international variations in susceptibility to the sunk cost effect, among other factors.KEYWORDS: Sunk cost biascounterterrorismundercover policingentrapmentIndiaUnited States Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This might change with a larger sample size; after all, in the 70 and above analysis, participants still had twice the odds of authorizing in the high-cost scenario.Additional informationFundingThis research was supported by a grant from the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at the University at Buffalo, SUNY (to H. Grol-Prokopczyk) and research support funding from the Office of the Provost, SUNY Fredonia (to J. J. Norris).","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135096004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The view from the top: IAFIE presidents on the organisation and the field","authors":"Michael Landon-Murray","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2257209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2257209","url":null,"abstract":"The International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) will be celebrating its 20th birthday in 2024. The establishment and development of IAFIE has corresponded to a remarkable growth in the number of college and university intelligence programs. This short piece gathers the views of four IAFIE Presidents relating to the state of the organisation as well as the intelligence education field. Presidents offered their take on a range of issues, including the contributions intelligence studies programs have (or have not) made to the intelligence workforce, the prospect of accreditation of academic intelligence programs, and needed curricular adaptations.","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136072337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring socio-psychological drivers of extreme violence in online terrorist manifestos: an alternative linguistic risk assessment model","authors":"J. Ebner, C. Kavanagh, H. Whitehouse","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2246982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2246982","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47164829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Countering radical terrorist ideology through psywar: lessons from the Malayan emergency","authors":"Andrew T. H. Tan","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2246973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2246973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42174800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tyler Clark, Ayushi R. Saxena, Thomas R. Guarrieri, Steve Sin
{"title":"A semi-stochastic algorithm approach to generating CBRNE terrorist attack plot scenarios","authors":"Tyler Clark, Ayushi R. Saxena, Thomas R. Guarrieri, Steve Sin","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2228536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2228536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48315264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The legacy of 9/11: a retrospective","authors":"Ryan Shaffer, J. Kaplan","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2234923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2234923","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue is offered as a retrospective about the impact of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the world community and how policing, intelligence, and counter terrorism have changed since the terrorist attacks. It brings together the perspectives and current research of scholars of policing and internal security, intelligence, and counter terrorism as well as the perspectives of practitioners from all three national security fields. The overall objective of this special issue is to emphasize the importance and unique contributions to both academia and national security that are made possible by bringing scholarly and practitioner perspectives together to better inform each others’ work.","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":"18 1","pages":"413 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41985911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A world remade: 9/11, America and the western world","authors":"J. Kaplan","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2234924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2234924","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘A World Remade’ is intended as a very personal afterword to the Special issue. It melds personal experience with historical analysis to consider the impact of 9/11 on both U.S. and global security.","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":"18 1","pages":"513 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44994635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of COVID-19 on police intelligence reports in the United Kingdom","authors":"Eric Halford","doi":"10.1080/18335330.2023.2230981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2230981","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48658666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}