CREST Catalogue – March 2019

Our updated CREST catalogue helps make it easier to find guides, reports and journals that relate to the same topic.

This is the third issue of the CREST catalogue and includes all our guides, reports and open-access journal articles. The catalogue indexes CREST’s outputs under three different themes:

• Understanding Who & Why.
• Better Intelligence Gathering & Decisions.
• Protecting Ourselves.

You can download the catalogue here: CREST Catalogue

Understanding Who & Why

This theme focuses on research on understanding actors, their beliefs, values and motivations and how they communicate their ideas to internal and external audiences.

Projects in this theme include:

• Ideas, beliefs and values in social context.
• Why do people adopt conspiracy theories?
• The internal brakes on violent escalation.

Better Intelligence Gathering & Decisions

This theme includes research on how to gather better information from groups and individuals as well as how terror groups make decisions, and how security and emergency services anticipate and improve responses to critical incidents.

Projects in this theme include:

• Eliciting information.
• Expertise and inertia in Emergency Services decision making.
• Understanding and countering online behaviour.

Protecting Ourselves

This theme includes research on how security professionals can communicate better with employees about how to protect organisations as well as understanding and mitigating the risk of large-scale change leading to counter-productive behaviour in employees.

Projects in this theme include:

• Protective security and risk assessment.
• Reporting violent extremist activity and involvement in foreign conflict.
• Assessing and mitigating the impact of organisational change.

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