Understanding Homeland Security
Third Edition
Learning Objectives
This chapter will enable readers to do the following:
- Apply historical perspectives on civil liberties and homeland security
- Describe how domestic security policies are designed to address threat environments existing at the time
- Evaluate the importance of balancing civil liberties protections and domestic security necessities
- Apply arguments from each side of the debate on how to balance civil liberty and homeland security
- Analyze controversial options for promoting domestic security