I väntan på nästa attack? - En jämförande studie av Danmarks och Sveriges preventiva terroråtgärder vid judiska mål

Many scholars have studied the rising threat from terrorism and the different challenges for the intelligence community in the prevention of an attack. But little research has been done on countries' different preventive measures within counter-terrorism. One of those examples are between Denmark and Sweden, which have made largely different approaches to preventive measures regarding security and guarding outside of jewish institutions. After the terror attack in Copenhagen 2015, when a jewish security guard was killed outside the synagogue, the danish government contributed to an extensive reprioritization within the police's work on the surveillance and the security measures to protect jewish targets. This is a big difference to Sweden, where jewish congregations are largely responsible for their own security. Using Wilhelm Agrell´s model for warning-processes and his theory about challenges in the detection of threats, this study has found flaws with the preventative measures, both in Denmark before the attack in 2015 and in Sweden today. By using the compliance theory to examine the organizational structure of the police today in different regions, the study has also found lacking resources, lack of information and collaboration as factors that contribute to the difference between the security measures and guarding between the countries.