Authors: John P. Sullivan - John P. Sullivan is a Lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, where he serves as Director of the National TEW Resource Center. He previously served as Officer-in-Charge of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group. He has managed intelligence, emergency operations and terrorism response activities and is a researcher specializing in terrorism, intelligence, urban operations, and police studies. He is author or co-author of four books and over 60 chapters, papers, articles or monographs on these and related topics. He is co-editor (along with Peter Katona and Michael D. Intriligator) of Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network (Routledge, 2006). His recent research focus includes suicide bombings, civil-military interaction in peace operations and counterinsurgency. He holds a M.A. Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from the New School for Social Research, New York, NY, and a B.S. in Government from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.; Keith Weston - Keith Weston QPM M.A., is a Senior Research Fellow in Counter Terrorism and Deputy Director of the Cranfield University Resilience Centre, based at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. In 2005, after 32 years service, he retired from the Metropolitan Police Service with the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He was a career counter-terrorist officer and served in both Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Branch. His last post was head of the Police International Counter Terrorism Unit. He currently leads the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Counter Terrorist Crisis Management programme, in specific countries. He is a regular speaker at UK and international conferences and is on the International Board of Advisors at New York University Law School, Centre on Law and Security. In 1992 he was awarded a Master of Arts Degree by Exeter University. In 2003 he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal.

DOI: 10.1080/17440570601073897

Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year

Published in: Global Crime, Volume 7, Issue 3 & 4 August 2006 , pages 615 - 628

Subjects: European Politics; International Politics; Organized Crime; Political Sociology; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Sociology & Social Policy;

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Previously published as: Transnational Organised Crime (1357-7387) until 2004