The hegemony of Prevent: turning counter-terrorism policing into common sense

The Securitisation of Routine Policing? A Case Study of the Impact of Counter Terrorism Policy on Local Policing

An influential body of research into policing and security has suggested that routine policing in Western European democracies has been subject to a process of ‘securitisation’. Securitisation refers to the identification of ‘existential threats’ which require emergency powers and extraordinary counter-measures outwith ‘normal’, democratically accountable, government (Weaver, 1996). Such is the...

Counter Argument In Defence of Common Sense

Mechanisms for eliciting cooperation in counter-terrorism policing: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Legitimacy and Deterrence Effects in Counter-Terrorism Policing: A Study of Muslim Americans

This study considers the circumstances under which members of the Muslim American community voluntarily cooperate with police efforts to combat terrorism. Cooperation is defined to include both a general receptivity toward helping the police in antiterror work and the specific willingness to alert police to terror-related risks in a community. We compare two perspectives on why people cooperate...

Data Mining for Counter-Terrorism

Data mining is becoming a useful tool for detecting and preventing terrorism. This paper first discusses some technical challenges for data mining as applied for counterterrorism applications. Next it provides an overview of the various types of terrorist threats and describes how data mining techniques could provide solutions to counterterrorism. Finally some privacy concerns and potential sol...