Abstract
Since the release of the Clarke and Newman’s ‘EVIL DONE’ framework in 2006, there has been limited empirical research on its capacity to predict target attractiveness and vulnerability as intended. This study investigated the utility of the framework in the context of the current United Kingdom (UK) threat landscape, including additions from the Marchment and Gill’s (2022) TRACK framework using UK terrorist incidents between 2015-2021 (n=184). For the UK as a whole ‘EVIL DONE’ may not be the best approach to predicting and mitigating the threat. Analysis of cases from Great Britain only demonstrates greater usefulness of the framework in explaining the attractiveness of targets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | (In-Press) |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Agression |
| Volume | (In-Press) |
| Early online date | 3 Jul 2023 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 3 Jul 2023 |
Bibliographical note
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s)or with their consent.Funder
This work was commissioned by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO), UK.Keywords
- Situational crime prevention
- EVIL DONE
- target desirability
Themes
- Security and Resilience
