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Preventing Terrorism and Controlling Risk

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Abstract

The previous chapters have highlighted how the risk of unpredictable and grave harm has been used to construct controversial legal hybrids aimed at preventing terrorist attacks. Exemplified by control order regimes in the UK and Australia, this precautionary approach to anti-terrorism law has been repeatedly challenged, resulting in the abolishment and replacement of the British scheme and reviews of Australian anti-terrorism laws. One of the principal criticisms levelled at control orders has been the extent of restrictions and obligations imposed on individuals who are suspected of posing a terrorist threat, but have not been found guilty of any offence. Traditionally, preventive restrictions of this magnitude have been reserved for individuals whose previous criminal conduct has indicated that they pose an exceptional risk to the general population. In the case of controlees, however, such risk assessments are inherently intelligence-based, a lack of evidence precluding criminal prosecution.

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Notes

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    Concealable, Removable, Available, Valuable, Enjoyable and Disposable.

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    They acknowledge that the response to organised crime has been broadened beyond enforcement with the introduction of serious crime prevention orders (SCPOs) in the UK, and increasing deportations of foreign nationals on the basis of intelligence alone.

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    More recently, Eck and Eck (2012) applied a regulatory approach to place-based crime prevention. Drawing on environmental regulatory policy, Eck and Eck proposed tackling crime at places as a form of pollution, and devising regulatory policies similar to pollution control to crime places.

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    Tertiary crime prevention deals with the actual offender and aims to prevent recidivism, and is thus not relevant to this research.

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Donkin, S. (2014). Crime Prevention: Back to Basics. In: Preventing Terrorism and Controlling Risk. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(), vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8705-0_6

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