Discriminative Environmental Properties in Terrorist Environments--A Basis forTraining

摘要

This final report describes a series of three interrelated studies addressing thenature of cues predictive of ambush or terrorist threat available to security force personnel in terrorist environments. The studies were: (1) Eighty four actual or attempted ambush situations were reconstructed through interviews with police participants, analysis of records, etc. in Northern Ireland; (2) One single incident involving the eventual arrest of two RAF terrorists in the Netherlands was reconstructed and analyzed in detail through interviews with police participants, records, etc.; and (3) A series of observational analyses and experimental simulations were undertaken of selected examples of police patrol work in the Republic of Ireland. The studies are analyzed, presented, and discussed within a behavioral framework, drawing of the conceptual approach known as the rationale Choice Perspective. Police behavior in hostile environments is characterized as being under the discriminative control of critical environment cues, and the studies presented are analyzed in terms of the availability of cues to participants. Contrasts are made in terms of the process of control between rule governance vs. immediate contingency control.