1st Edition

Developments in Counter-Terrorist Measures and Uses of Technology

Edited By Helen Fenwick Copyright 2012
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

This book considers some of the most notable aspects of the legal response to the "war on terror" post- 9/11 and the use of technology to support them. It examines the shift from a criminal justice response to the creation of a parallel preventive system running in tandem with it. This system has tended to veer away from the commission of criminal offences or adherence to ordinary... Read more

1. Terrorism, CCTV and the Freedom Bill 2011: achieving compatibility with Article 8 ECHR? D Fenwick

2. Terrorism, asset-freezing and the ECHR A Tomkins, L Lazarus, H Fenwick

3. Control orders, TPIMS and the Human Rights Act G Phillipson and H Fenwick

4. The Impact of counter-terror measures in the UK on Muslim communities T Choudhury and H Fenwick

5. Preventing Terrorism, Video Surveillance and Human Rights:What about State Accountability ? Q Eijkman

6. Surveillance – technological developments within the UK enhancing public safety or social threat? B Sheldon

Biography

Helen Fenwick is Joint Director of the University of Durham Human Rights Centre. She is author of Civil Rights: New Labour, Freedom and the Human Rights Act (Longmans/Pearson, 2000); Media Freedom under the Human Rights Act (2006: OUP, with G Phillipson); Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights (3rd ed. Routledge: 2010, with G Phillipson) and Civil Liberties and Human Rights (4th ed. 2007, Routledge).