In response to the current terrorist threat, law enforcement agencies at every level have expanded technological and intelligence-gathering initiatives in order to support new tactical, investigative and deployment strategies. The demand for homeland security requires that agencies hire professional and specially-trained criminal and intelligence analysts to find and pre-empt any potential threat. Agencies must now determine how to train these analysts and properly identify and respond to critical intelligence. This book provides a framework for exploring the issues that all new or existing analysts and investigators must face, including what information to gather, how to analyze it, and the effectiveness of crime analysts investigating terrorism.

Foreword / Eduardo Gonzalez -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chap. 1. A need for understanding and analysis -- Chap. 2. Understanding and defining terrorism -- Chap. 3. Homeland security and analysis -- Chap. 4. Gathering information, the key to the process -- Chap. 5. Enhanced analysis : transforming information into intelligence -- Chap. 6. What the future may hold -- Chap. 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Domestic-based terrorist organizations -- Appendix B. Known active Patriot groups in the United States as of 2001 -- Appendix C. Symbols of hate -- Appendix D. Foreign-based terrorist organizations -- Appendix E. Explosive materials -- Appendix F. Homeland security state contact list -- Appendix G. Publication references -- Appendix H. Government legislative references -- Appendix I. Glossary of terminology -- Index.