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Book SynopsisThe initial responses to 9/11 engaged categorical questions about 'war', 'terrorism', and 'crime'. Now the implementation of counter-terrorism law is infused with dichotomies - typically depicted as the struggle between security and human rights, but explored more exactingly in this book as traversing boundaries around the roles of lawyers, courts, and crimes; the relationships between police, military, and security agencies; and the interplay of international and national enforcement. The contributors to this book explore how developments in counter-terrorism have resulted in pressures to cross important ethical, legal and organizational boundaries. They identify new tensions and critique the often unwanted outcomes within common law, civil law, and international legal systems.
This book explores counter-terrorism measures from an original and strongly comparative perspective and delivers an important resource for scholars of terrorism laws, strategies, and politics, as well as human rights and comparative lawyers.
Contributors: M.L. Anglí, S. Bronitt, B. Dickson, S. Donkin, F. Galli, J.-M.L. Gorostiza, S. Hufnagel, A. Masferrer, M.C. Meliá, J. Moran, A. Petzsche, A. Staniforth, C. Walker, S. Wallerstein, D.P.J. Walsh
Trade Review'A deep and thoughtful exploration of counter-terrorism written by leading commentators from around the globe. This book poses critical questions about the definition of terrorism, the role of human rights and the push by many governments for more security powers. It carefully examines the boundaries between crime and thought, crime and war, the domestic and the international and the legal and the illegal-boundaries that were once seen as inviolate, but which have become blurred during the last turbulent decade.' --Kent Roach, University of Toronto, Canada
'This edited book contains very informative, well-researched and well-argued chapters. It brings to the fore legal and conceptual issues that have preoccupied lawyers, academics and government officials since 9/11.'
--Stéphane Lefebvre, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Table of ContentsContents: PART I: CROSSING LEGAL BOUNDARIES IN CONCEPTUAL CATEGORIES 1. Countering Terrorism and Crossing Legal Boundaries Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker 2. What does ‘Terrorism’ Mean? Mariona Llobet Anglí 3. The Fragility of Fundamental Rights in the Origins of Modern Constitutionalism: Its Negative Impact in Protecting Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’ Era Aniceto Masferrer 4. Myths and Misunderstandings About Security, Rights and Liberty in the United Kingdom Jon Moran PART II: CROSSING LEGAL BOUNDARIES FROM LIBERTY TO CRIME 5. Terrorism as a Criminal Offence Manuel Cancio Meliá and Anneke Petzsche 6. Freedom of Thought or ‘Thought-crimes’? Counter-terrorism and Freedom of Expression Francesca Galli 7. Terrorism and Crimes against Humanity: Interferences and Differences at the International Level and their Projection upon Spanish Domestic Law Jon-Mirena Landa Gorostiza 8. Safety Interviews, Adverse Inferences and the Relationship between Terrorism and Ordinary Criminal Law Shlomit Wallerstein PART III: CROSSING LEGAL BOUNDARIES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS 9. Critical Perspectives on the Evaluation of Counter-Terrorism Strategies: Counting Costs of the ‘War on Terror’ in Australia Susan Donkin and Simon Bronitt 10. The Right of Access to a Lawyer in Terrorist Cases Brice Dickson 11. Erasing the Distinction between Anti-terrorist and Criminal Justice Measures in Ireland: Past and Present Dermot P.J. Walsh PART IV: CROSSING LEGAL BOUNDARIES IN COUNTER-TERRORISM ORGANISATIONS 12. Cross-border Law Enforcement in the Area of Counter-terrorism: Maintaining Human Rights in Transnational Policing Saskia Hufnagel 13. Detention in Extremis: Transferring Lessons from Counter-terrorism Policing to Military Detentions Clive Walker 14. The Amplification and Melding of Counter-terrorism Agencies: From Security Services to Police and Back Again Clive Walker and Andrew Staniforth Bibliography Index
