Full Description
The tragedies of failed negotiations and tactical rescue attempts at Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Good Guys electronic store highlights the difficulty of peacefully resolving hostage/crisis situations. The volatility of hostage-taking events, especially terrorist hostages takers, demonstrates the complicated challenges negotiators and tactical response teams face as they attempt to resolve hostage/crisis events. The text provides practical, tactical, and legal information concerning the interactive strategies of hostage negotiations. On of its major strengths is a comprehensive review of the legal perspectives related to hostage-taking incidents. the text is well-documented and draws on the experience of scholars and practitioners in an effort to provide the best information on determining the outcome of hostage-taking events. it ads to the behaviourial science literature associated with the complicated process of hostage negotiations. The book is a blend of theory, research, practical, and legal discussion that makes it valuable contribution to the literature on hostage negotiations.
Contents
Terrorism - hostage typologies and beyond - typologies of hostage-taking; key perspectives and issues on hostage-taking - law endorsement, potential targets, security arrangements, psychological interaction, Stockholm syndrome, London syndrome, contagion syndrome, impact of hostage-taking on society; hostage-taking concepts and effects - phases of hostage-taking, guidelines and intelligence, information about hostage-takers, hostages and locations; process of negotiations, some consideration - the negotiator, team concept and process of negotiation, negotiator selection, negotiator training, negotiator strategies and styles; hostage rescue, tactical considerations - hostage rescue - the US experience, Entebbe and beyond, growth of hostage rescue teams, tactical teams, tactical team - responsibilities and selection; case study analysis - the Good Guys, Ruby Ridge - Weaver incident, Waco incident, skyjacking -Croatian nationalists; legal considerations of hostage-taking and crisis situations - the duty to negotiate - the Down's case, use of deadly force, Miranda and hostage-taking, media an crisis situations, eavesdropping, wiretapping, video surveillance and other high technology devices, crime scene searchers - post emergency, the Hostage-taking Act, contracts of immunity; the future of terrorist hostage-taking - hostage-taking and terrorism, a new generation of hostage-takers, super terrorism and hostage-taking, future hostage-taking strategies, - some considerations. Appendix: how to survive a hostage situation; security preparation - assessing the threat; open-source information; human sources; single intelligence collection; photographic intelligence collection; surveillance, hostage-taking countermeasures; the capture phase; surviving captivity. Legal references; index of authors.
