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Religion, Theology and Counter-Terrorism
As highlighted in Chapters 3 and 4, historically — in a pre-9/11 world — communities were primarily viewed by the police on the basis of their...
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Uncertainty in the Study of Terrorism
In 1927, Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle changed what it means to do science and to think scientifically. He posited that certain...
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Constituting Security in the Penal and the Social Realms
The problem of security – defined as both an objective state and a subjective feeling – and the solutions that individuals, institutions, nation...
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Communities and Counter-Terrorism: Some Final Reflections
The notion that ‘communities can defeat terrorism’ has generated and continues to provoke much controversy and debate. The chapters in this book have...
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Introducing Counter-Terrorism Studies
Traditionally, terrorism and counter-terrorism studies have been highly specialized fields, confined predominantly to the subject areas of political...
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Corruption as a Metaphor for Societies in Transition?
In transitional societies in which contradictory value systems exist simultaneously, because rapid transformations have led to a neglect of old...
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High Policing Theory and the Question of ‘What is to be Done?’
Within the field of high policing theory it has become increasingly difficult to pose the question of ‘What is to be done?’ in ways that do not...
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Myths in Policing and Security
In many ways, policing and security arguments, debates and public discussions are mixed with myths, rhetoric, operational codes and other ‘necessity...
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Organised crime groups in cyberspace: a typology
Three categories of organised groups that exploit advances in information and communications technologies (ICT) to infringe legal and regulatory...
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Criminal Exploitation of Online Systems by Organised Crime Groups
This article considers how information and communications technologies (ICT) can be used by organised crime groups to infringe legal and regulatory...
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The Spanish Experience of Countering Terrorism: From ETA to al-Qaeda
Spain and the United Kingdom have been two of the liberal democracies most deeply concerned with a persistent challenge from terrorism. Since the...
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Counterterrorism in the Netherlands after 9/11: The ‘Dutch Approach’
November 2, 2004 was a turning point in Dutch political history. In the early morning of that day, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants,...
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In the Shadow of 9/11: Security, Intelligence and Terrorism in the United Kingdom
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s response to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 (9/11) put the United Kingdom at the forefront of the embryonic...
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National Security, Religious Liberty and Counterterrorism
On 7 July 2005 (7/7), fifty-two people were killed and around seven hundred injured by four bombs in central London, three of them on London...
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The Threat Environment Created by International Terrorism from the German Police Perspective
International terrorism motivated by Islamist ideology poses completely new challenges to the security authorities of the affected states in terms of...
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Immigration and Terrorism: A Constructed Connection
In the aftermath of 9/11 several European countries intensified their counter-terrorism policy. This article refers to the Spanish response to the...
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The Continuing Relevance of Marxism to Critical Criminology
Since the early 1990s, the ``new directions'' in Critical Criminology have consciously excluded Marxism as being out-dated. This article critically...
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French arms, war and genocide in Rwanda
France is now the world's second largest armsexporter, and the largest supplier of weapons to thedevelo** world. The record of France's...