Policing Terrorism
Publisher’s description This is an accessible and up to date text for students on police-related degree courses covering a highly topical area of policing. Terrorism has become a major issue[…]
Tagged: counter-terrorism
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The Strategy of Exclusion in American Counterterrorism
Journal abstract While garnering heightened attention following the Trump administration’s travel restrictions, exclusionary tactics in counterterrorism have a much lengthier history. Given that some terrorism studies scholars identify social and[…]
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Community Stakeholder Responses to Countering Violent Extremism Locally
Journal abstract In the United States, despite federal efforts to empower communities to form local governance networks to develop and implement collaborative countering violent extremism (CVE) programs, local CVE governance[…]
Resisting Radicalisation: A Critical Analysis of the UK Prevent Duty
Journal abstract In response to the threat of terrorism and radicalisation, the UK government introduced the counterterrorism strategy CONTEST and its four strands ‘Prepare, Prevent, Protect, Pursue’. As one of[…]
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Just get on with it: Implementing the Prevent duty in higher education and the role of academic expertise
Journal abstract The Prevent policy was introduced in 2003 as part of the UK counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) with the aim of preventing the radicalisation of people to terrorism. In 2015,[…]
Developing the political citizen: How teachers are navigating the statutory demands of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 205 and the Prevent Duty
Journal abstract The ‘Revised Prevent Duty Guidance for England and Wales’ presents statutory guidance under section 29 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. This guidance states that ‘Schools should[…]
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The enactment of the counter-terrorism “Prevent duty” in British schools and colleges: beyond reluctant accommodation or straightforward policy acceptance
Journal abstract When Britain imposed the “Prevent duty”, a legal duty on education, health and social welfare organisations to report concerns about individuals identified as at-risk of radicalisation, critics argued[…]
The contradiction in the Prevent Duty: Democracy vs ‘British values’
Journal abstract The duty to monitor ‘the failure to uphold British Values’ in the Prevent strategy, introduced in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, is itself an attack on British[…]
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A Woman’s Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
Publisher’s description The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments[…]
Extremism, Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism Law and Policy
Publisher’s description This edited collection addresses a number of free speech vs security concerns that are engaged by counter-terrorism law and policy makers across a number of liberal democracies, and[…]
Converging Patterns in Pathways in and out of Violent Extremism: Insights from Former Canadian Right-Wing Extremists24 January, 2020
A former right-wing extremist in school-based prevention work: Research findings from Germany22 January, 2020
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America20 January, 2020
Standing up and Speaking Out? British Muslims’ Collective Action against Islamist Extremism17 January, 2020