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The geography of pre-criminal space : epidemiological imaginations of radicalisation risk in the UK prevent strategy, 2007-2017
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Heath-Kelly, Charlotte (2017) The geography of pre-criminal space : epidemiological imaginations of radicalisation risk in the UK prevent strategy, 2007-2017. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 10 (2). 297-319 .
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2017.1327141
Abstract
This article explores geographical and epistemological shifts in the deployment of the UK Prevent strategy, 2007–2017. Counter-radicalisation policies of the Labour governments (2006–2010) focused heavily upon resilience-building activities in residential communities. They borrowed from historical models of crime prevention and public health to imagine radicalisation risk as an epidemiological concern in areas showing a 2% or higher demography of Muslims. However, this racialised and localised imagination of pre-criminal space was replaced after the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010. Residential communities were then de-emphasised as sites of risk, transmission and pre-criminal intervention. The Prevent Duty now deploys counter-radicalisation through national networks of education and health-care provision. Localised models of crime prevention (and their statistical, crime prevention epistemologies) have been de-emphasised in favour of big data inflected epistemologies of inductive, population-wide “safeguarding”. Through the biopolitical discourse of “safeguarding vulnerable adults”, the Prevent Duty has radically reconstituted the epidemiological imagination of pre-criminal space, imagining that all bodies are potentially vulnerable to infection by radicalisers and thus warrant surveillance.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Great Britain, Radicalization -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Great Britain, Muslims -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Studies on Terrorism | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1753-9153 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 10 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | 297-319 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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