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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of anti-terrorism policies. The efficacy of such policies is considered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in the years since, a number of other measures have been taken in the name of deterring terrorism. For many, these counter-terrorism measures have often entailed a reduction in civil
liberties, calling their value into question. While proponents of the existing counter-terrorism measures no doubt argue that a reduction in liberty is a necessary trade off for increased security, such
an argument only holds water if counter-terrorism policies have actually achieved the result of increasing security. In many cases, the measurements used to evaluate the effectiveness of anti-terrorism policies are
themselves so skewed that they produce a misleadingly optimistic portrait of that effectiveness. This paragraph helps the student introduce some measures used to evaluate policies. In order to properly judge
the merits of an anti-terrorism policy, it is important to have some criteria upon which to base such a judgment. In the case of anti-terrorism policies, there are a number
of widely used measures, often "framed in terms of incidents, attitudes, and trends" (Perl, 2007). Looking at the issue in terms of incidents, one might measure the effectiveness of policies
by some quantitative figure such as the rate of casualties from terrorist attacks, or the frequency of those attacks around the globe (Perl, 2007). In terms of attitude, one might
measure the effectiveness of terrorism policies by gauging the degree to which the population feels safe from attack (Perl, 2007). Given that spreading fear is one of the primary functions
of terrorism, such a measurement is highly relevant. As for trends, some studies have even measured progress in reducing terrorism in terms of money spent on anti-terrorism measures (Perl, 2007).
One particularly pragmatic measurement involves measuring terrorist groups by their proximity to the next iteration of organizational evolution; in other words, how close the group in question is to acquiring
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