Hostile Intent and Counter-Terrorism

This volume brings together research from around the world to explore a range of topics within the project of detecting terrorist activities. It is divided into six key themes: conceptualising terrorism deception and decision making social and cultural factors in terrorism modelling hostile intent strategies for counter-terrorism and future directions. Twenty four chapters explore the spectrum of detecting terrorist activities hostile intent crowded public spaces and suspicious behaviour. A variety of disciplines are represented including ergonomics/human factors psychology criminology cognitive science sociology political theory engineering and computer science.