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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807712703321

Autore

Cook Alethia

Titolo

Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism : How Bureaucracies Reacted to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2009

ISBN

1-282-87062-9

9786612870620

0-8264-3491-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Disciplina

363.325/180976638

363.325180976638

Soggetti

Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Bureaucratic Response to Disasters: Issues and Methods; Chapter Two: Disaster, Chaos, and Response: First Arrival at the Murrah Building Scene; Chapter Three: Emergency Response Challenges; Chapter Four: Response as a Street-Level Phenomenon; Chapter Five: Response Bureaucracies' Tasks and Goals; Chapter Six: Conclusions: Lessons Learned and Reinforced; Appendix A: Interviews Conducted; Appendix B: Interview Questionnaires; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For that reason, the government must be better prepared to respond to acts of terror. One critical element is to understand what constitutes an "effective response." To answer this key question, the author examined the existing literature and interviewed thirty-one elite participants in the emergency response to the bombing