TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dosdall, Henrik
A1  - Löckmann, Teresa
T1  - Exploring terrorism prevention
T2  - Journal of organizational sociology
N2  - 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.
KW  - Berlin Christmas market attack
KW  - case ecologies
KW  - investigative routines
KW  - lone actors
KW  - police
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64085
SN  - 2752-2997
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
SP  - 47
EP  - 72
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -