Contagion, Counter-Terrorism and Criminology: Strategies for Contestation?

Hamilton, Claire

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“…The raft of anti-terrorist legislation 4 introduced in England and Wales and Australia since the early 2000s, including the UK Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and the Australian amendments to the Criminal Code Act 1995 (see Division 104), has given the police and security agencies wider powers of stop and search, of pre-charge preventive detention, the use of control orders and non-association orders, and presumptions against bail (Brown et al, 2015: 312, 1207–1211; Hamilton, 2019: 15–47). Counter-terrorism measures and Islamophobia have added a further dynamic to the policing of young people from racialized groups.…”

Section: Racialization and The Processes Of Youth Justicementioning

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Youth justice and racialization: Comparative reflections

Cunneen

2019

Theoretical Criminology

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Drawing on comparative work between Australia and England and Wales, this article considers issues of criminalization, racialization and youth justice. The article explores both the overt and more subtle forms of racializing and criminalizing young people and highlights the necessity for historically and situationally contextualized understandings of identity and race. The rationalities, practices and discourses of youth justice through which racialization occurs are identified, including how race itself becomes solidified as a category in which people, in many cases, from heterogeneous backgrounds, can be captured and named. In particular there is discussion of the rise of apparently neutral and non-discriminatory justifications for intervention found in the use of risk assessment that leads to racialized differentiation. It is argued that these practices both mask race in their practices and mark race in their outcomes.

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Section: Racialization and The Processes Of Youth Justicementioning

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Youth justice and racialization: Comparative reflections

Cunneen

2019

Theoretical Criminology

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“…In the aftermath of 9/11, a fundamental shift in how states imagined and responded to terrorism caused a revaluation of how we construct the threat of TPV. Ireland was not immune to this revaluation and, despite its history of and experience with domestic terrorism, similar to its European neighbors, the state engaged in overreach in the name of countering and preventing terrorism (Hamilton, 2019). The impact of 9/11 led to the global (re)construction of the terrorist threat as primarily being driven by Islamic-linked extremism, as well as the reframing of terrorism that was in the past seen as nationalist or secessionist as Islamic-linked.…”

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“…In the latter case, the occurrence of acts of TPV can usually only be inferred from the nature of the charge, the referral to a particular court, or committal of an individual to a particular prison wing. These data issues, particularly in the Republic of Ireland, are in addition to ongoing problems faced by researchers investigating crime topics separate to political violence (Hamilton, 2019). These problems are due in large part to the fact that the relevant data are not categorized in a way conducive to identifying incidences of TPV, alongside the lack of a central location for the data, and the way offenses are charged in the criminal justice system.…”

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Counter Extremism in Ireland: An Overview of the Landscape

Lynch

2022

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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This article addresses how the legacy of the conflict known as the Troubles affects how we conceive of and respond to terrorism and political violence (TPV) on the island of Ireland. It will focus on how dominant frameworks such as those that emerged after 9/11 led to what has become a two-tiered system of counterterrorism and counter extremism: one for Troubles-linked extremism and one for Islamic-linked extremism. Focusing on issues of ideology, radicalization, motivation, legislation, and particularly prison regimes, this article will examine how Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland frame and respond to TPV. In addition, this article will highlight how, what is termed Preventing Violence Extremism (PVE) and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), manifests in Ireland in response to pre- and post-9/11 instances of TPV and, finally, how lessons from Ireland might be relevant for addressing political violence beyond the island.

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“…In this regard, it is helpful to note that Inglehart and Norris’s (2016, 2017) study identified security-related concerns 5 as one of five ‘cultural’ factors which they found to be independently predictive of populist sentiment. Research has also linked punitive attitudes on crime, sentencing and capital punishment to voters’ age, race and ethnicity, and their level of support for populist parties (Kaufmann, 2016).…”

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Radical right populism and the sociology of punishment: Towards a research agenda

Hamilton

2022

Punishment & Society

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The recent populist ‘explosion’ in the US, UK and Europe has pushed radical right populist movements to the centre of western politics. Given criminology's long experience of penal populism in the 1980s and subsequent decades, these developments raise important questions as to the role of sociology of punishment, and the wider discipline of criminology, in responding to far-right populism. This article aims to takes stock of the existing literature on this phenomenon with a view to proposing a tentative criminological research agenda that may contribute to our understanding of the recent rise of authoritarian politics in Europe, the UK and US. While highlighting the continued salience of the emotions in contemporary ‘security populism’, the article cautions against what has been described as a ‘pathologising’ approach to research in this area. Building on this, the paper advances an argument for a criminological research agenda based on a post-dualistic understanding of political affects that seeks to move the analytic focus beyond negativity.

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Contagion, Counter-Terrorism and Criminology: Strategies for Contestation?

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Youth justice and racialization: Comparative reflections

Youth justice and racialization: Comparative reflections

Counter Extremism in Ireland: An Overview of the Landscape

Radical right populism and the sociology of punishment: Towards a research agenda

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