Terrorist Victimization: Prevention, Control and Recovery
| Author | Dilip K. Das,Mag. Maximilian Edelbacher,Peter C. Kratcoski |
| DOI | 10.1177/026975800100800302 |
| Published date | 01 September 2001 |
| Date | 01 September 2001 |
International
Review
ofVictimology,
2001,
Vol.
8,
pp.257-268
0269-7580/01
$10
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TERRORIST
VICTIMIZATION:
PREVENTION,
CONTROLANDRECOVERY
United
Nations
Center,
Vienna,
Austria,
April12,
2000,
Executive
Summary
PETER
C.
KRATCOSKI
1,
MAG.
MAXIMILIAN
EDELBACHER
2
and
DIUP
K.
DAS
3
1
Kent
State
University,
Kent,
Ohio,
USA
·
2
Major
Crime
Bureau,
Federal
Police
of
Austria,
Vienna,
Austria,
Official
Reporters
3
State
University
of
New
York,
Plattsburgh,
New
York,
USA
ABSTRACT
An
Ancillary
Meeting
on
the
topic
of 'Terrorist
Victimization:
Prevention,
Control,
and
Recovery'
was
held
at
the
United
Nations
Center
in
Vienna,
Austria
on
Wednesday,
April
12,
2000
in
conjunction
with
the
Tenth
United
Nations
Congress
on
the
Prevention of
Crime
and
the
Treatment
of
Offenders.
The
Congress
focused
on
'Crime
and
Justice:
Meeting
the
Challenges of
the
21st
Century.'
The
Ancillary
Meeting
was
sponsored
by
the
State
University
of
New
York,
Plattsburgh,
USA
and
chaired
by
Dr.
Dilip
K.
Das,
Professor
in
the
Department
of
Sociology
and
Criminal
Justice
at
that
University.
The
speakers
included
Alex
P.
Schmid,
Officer-in-Charge,
Terrorism
Prevention
Branch,
United
Nations;
George
H.
Millard,
Sao
Paulo,
Brazil,
Dr.
Ely
Karmon,
Senior
Research
Scholar,
International
Policy
Institute
for
Counter-Terrorism,
Kerzlyia,
Israel;
and
Dr.
Harvey
W.
Kushner,
Professor
and
Chair,
Department
of
Criminal
Justice
and
Security
Adminis-
tration,
Long
Island
University,
Brookville,
New
York,
USA.
Other
presentations
were
made
by
Dr.
David
Rapoport,
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles,
California,
USA;
Niles
Lathem,
The
New
York
Post,
Washington,
D.C.,
USA,
Arvind
Verma,
Department
of Criminal Justice,
Indiana
University,
Bloomington,
Indiana,
USA,
Dr.
S.
Subramanian,
Raghavendra
Nagar
Shvrampally,
Hyderabad,
India,
George
Ballard,
Grand
Valley
State
University,
Allendale,
Michigan,
USA
and
Boaz
Ganor,
International
Policy
Institute
for
Counter-Terrorism,
Herzlyia,
Israel.
In
the
presentations
by
speakers
from
Europe,
North
America,
North
Africa,
the
Middle
East,
Asia
and
South
America
and
in
the
ensuing
discussions,
a
wide
variety
of issues,
concerns,
and
prevention strategies
were
covered
in
a
global
framework,
and
also
applied
to
situations
in
specific
countries
and
continents.
The
papers
and
the
sessions
focused
on
a
number
of
themes,
including
an
assessment
of
the
main
contemporary
trends
in
terrorism,
the
politicalization of
terrorism,
the
effects
that
terrorism
has
on
primary
and
secondary
victims,
the
linkage
of terrorism
with
organized
crime,
and
the
measures
that
governments,
international organizations,
and
justice
agencies
can
take
to
curtail
and
eradicate
terrorism,
including
international
cooperative
efforts.
ASSESSMENT
OF
CONTEMPORARY
TRENDS
Subramanian (2000;
p.
1),
in
his
presentation entitled 'Safeguarding Human
Rights
of
People in Counter Terrorist Operations', noted that the Federal Bureau
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