Policing terror threats and false positives: Employing a signal detection model to examine changes in national and local policing strategy between 2001 and 2007

Security Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-36

  Kilburn, John C ^a   Costanza, Stephen E ^b   Metchik, Eric ^c   Borgeson, Kevin ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

false positives; Homeland security; policing; terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251528248     PISSN: 09551662     EISSN: 17434645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sj.2009.7     Document Type: Article

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