Overview
- This book asks what is the impact of counter-terrorism measures on the penal trajectories of EU countries? Will they leads to a more punitive approach to crime?
- It combines critical criminology and law in order to advance fundamental understanding of the implications for the future of European criminal justice
- It focusses on three case studies of France, Poland, and the United Kingdom
Part of the book series: Crime Prevention and Security Management (CPSM)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book considers the impact of post 9/11 counter-terrorism laws outside of the counter-terrorism context, a process described here as ‘contagion’. It does so via a detailed empirical examination of the impact of counter-terrorism measures on the criminal justice systems of three selected EU countries with varying histories and experience of terrorism, namely, the UK, France and Poland. In particular, the book explores the synergistic relationship between counter-terrorism measures and control measures aimed at ‘ordinary’ crimes and asks what the implications are for the direction of travel of the criminal law in general. It probes the hegemonic power of terrorism and the securitisation agenda more broadly and discusses the implications for criminology as a discipline – does it, for example, have a role in social contestation of contagion? This book will be suitable for academics and students interested in political violence, terrorism and counterterrorism as well as practitioners and experts working in the area.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Claire Hamilton is Professor of Criminology at Maynooth University Department of Law, Ireland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contagion, Counter-Terrorism and Criminology
Book Subtitle: Justice in the Shadow of Terror
Authors: Claire Hamilton
Series Title: Crime Prevention and Security Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12322-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12321-5Published: 28 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12322-2Published: 21 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3513
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 162
Topics: Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Crime Prevention, Policing, Human Rights, Human Rights and Crime