Dr Noel McGuirk has recently published his first monograph titled 'Terrorist Profiling and Law Enforcement: Detection, Prevention, Deterrence' with Routledge. A key trend in law and policy aimed at combatting terrorism is the increasing use of policing strategies that allow law enforcement officers to anticipate risk so that they can engage in preventing, interrupting and prosecuting those suspected of terrorist offences before their commission. One such pre-emptive policing strategy is the use of terrorist profiling.

This book undertakes a taxonomy of terrorist profiling by exploring its nature as well as examining whether it might ever be considered a useful counter terrorism tool. This examination is undertaken by developing a framework to analyse and classify different manifestations of terrorist profiling from formal to informal. This framework involves undertaking a systematic assessment of terrorist profiling by deconstructing the profiling process so that the construction, application and impact of profiling is examined separately. There are different manifestations of profiling examined from Germany, the UK, the US and Israel in order to conduct an assessment of terrorist profiling.