Refugees, Perceived Threat & Domestic Terrorism

Terrorism in Australia: factors associated with perceived threat and incident-critical behaviours

BACKGROUND To help improve incident preparedness this study assessed socio-demographic and socio-economic predictors of perceived risk of terrorism within Australia and willingness to comply with public safety directives during such incidents. METHODS The terrorism perception question module was incorporated into the New South Wales Population Health Survey and was completed by a representati...

A Comparative Study of Authoritarianism, Perceived Threat of Terrorism, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

Terrorism, Security, and the Threat of Counterterrorism

In America, Britain and Australia the threat of terrorism has been used to justify radical new legislation that gives police and intelligence agencies unprecedented powers to detain and question people believed to have information connected to terrorism. In this paper I explore the nature of the threat of non-state terrorism—threat to national security and the well-being of citizens. I argue th...

Biologic terrorism--responding to the threat.

The growing awareness of the possibility that a terrorist organization might use a biologic agent in an attack on a civilian target in the United States raises important questions about our capability as a nation to respond effectively to the threat and to deal with the consequences of an attack. The article by Kaufmann et al. in this issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases describes three possib...

How Serious Is Threat of Radiological Terrorism?

Radiological terrorism (radioterrorism) is the deliberate use of radiological weapons. These weapons use radioactive materials to disperse and emit ionizing radiation. There are two classes of radiological weapons - radiological dispersal devices (RDD) and radiation emission devices (RED). These weapons would no cause massive numbers of dead. In most radiological attack scenarios, only few peop...