1st Edition

Terrorist Profiling and Law Enforcement Detection, Prevention, Deterrence

By Noel McGuirk Copyright 2021
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the usefulness of terrorist profiling utilised by law enforcement officers as a pre-emptive means to assist them in the detection, prevention and deterrence of terrorism and/or its preparatory activities. It explores two main themes arising from the phenomenon of terrorist profiling: the lawfulness of terrorist profiling and the utility of profiling. These two themes are... Read more

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: An Assessment of the Justification for the Inclusion of Sensitive Characteristics in Terrorist Profiling

Chapter Three: Criminal profiling and its Applicability to Terrorist Profiling

Chapter Four: Formal Terrorist Profiling: The Construction and Application of Terrorist Profiles

Chapter Five: Behavioural Profiling: The Construction and Application of Behavioural Profiles in the Context of Terrorism

Chapter Six: An Examination of Manifestations of Informal Terrorist Profiling

Chapter Seven: Conclusion

Biography

Noel McGuirk is a Lecturer in Law specialising in terrorism law at Lancaster University Law School. Previously, Noel was a judicial research assistant at the Courts Service (Ireland) based in the Court of Appeal and worked on various research projects during his tenure. Noel’s research interests broadly focus on the relationship between terrorism, counterterrorism and human rights law. He is particularly interested in analysing legal responses to terrorism that have been adopted by various states to assist in preventing, detecting and deterring terrorism threats.