Exploring terrorism prevention
- The article analyzes the investigations conducted by the Berlin police into the subsequent perpetrator of the vehicle-ramming attack at a Berlin Christmas market on December 19, 2016. We explore why the police closed these investigations prematurely and thereby focus on an attempt to prevent lone actor terrorism. The analysis shows that the police closed its investigations owing to organizational dynamics driven by an increasing need to justify further resource investments in the face of absent conclusive evidence and scarce resources in relation to the organizational case ecology. We propose hypotheses for future research and formulate three contributions to existing research on the sociology of police, terrorism prevention, and lone actor research.
| Author details: | Henrik DosdallORCiDGND, Teresa LöckmannORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/joso-2022-0002 |
| ISSN: | 2752-2997 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of organizational sociology |
| Subtitle (English): | an organizational perspective on police investigations |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Place of publishing: | Berlin |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2023/06/08 |
| Publication year: | 2023 |
| Release date: | 2024/06/11 |
| Tag: | Berlin Christmas market attack; case ecologies; investigative routines; lone actors; police |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Number of pages: | 26 |
| First page: | 47 |
| Last Page: | 72 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Soziologie |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
