Counter-Terrorism: Community-Based Approaches to Preventing Terror Crime

ISBN-13: 9780230242135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 209 str.

Basia Spalek

Opis

Efforts to counter terrorism are drawing increasingly on community-based initiatives and a partnership between police officers and members of specific social groups. This book analyses the potential of these initiatives and the role played by factors such as community engagement, gender and religion, and the tensions that these create.

Spis treści

Introducing Counter-Terrorism Studies; B.Spalek
Community-based Approaches to Counter-Terrorism; B.Spalek
Policing Within Counter-Terrorism; B.Spalek
Engagement and Partnership in Community-based Approaches to Counter-Terrorism; A.H.Baker
Gender Within a Counter-Terrorism Context: L.Z.McDonald
Engaging Young People within a Counter-Terrorism Context; L.Z.McDonald
Religion, Theology and Counter-Terrorism; S.El-Awa & B.Spalek
Policing, Terrorism and the Conundrum of 'Community'; J.Topping& J.Byrne
Communities and Counter-Terrorism: Some Final Reflections; B.Spalek

O autorze

Basia Spalek is Professor of Conflict Transformation in the Department of Therapeutic Practice at Derby University, UK. She is a BACP registered psychotherapist, specialising in trauma and peace-building. Her research interests lie in conflict transformation, community-based approaches to preventing and responding to violence, counter-terrorism and victimisation and victim services.

Blurb

This book examines community-based approaches to counter-terrorism through an analysis of the notions of community, partnership, engagement, gender and religion in order to shed new light on the potential of and drawbacks to these approaches. It stresses the need for policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the effectiveness of the initiatives that they are engaged with, particularly in relation to how community-targeted or community-focused they are.

Includes contributions from: Abdul Haqq Baker, Jonathon Byrne, Salwa El-Awa, Laura Zahra McDonald, Basia Spalek and John Topping.