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). ISSN 1753-9153 (In Press)

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Abstract

This paper 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 racialized 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 healthcare 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
Subjects:	J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government J Political Science > JZ International relations K Law > KD England and Wales
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Journal or Publication Title:	Critical Studies on Terrorism
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1753-9153
Official Date:	3 May 2017
Dates:	Date Event 3 May 2017 Accepted
Volume:	10
Number:	2
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	In Press
Funder:	Wellcome Trust (London, England)
Grant number:	205365/Z/16/Z
Related URLs:	Publisher
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/88388

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