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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

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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
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
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
Dates:
DateEvent
2017Published
1 June 2017Available
24 May 2017Accepted
Volume: 10
Number: 2
Page Range: 297-319
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
205365/Z/16/ZWellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440

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