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Prosecuting Suspected Terrorists: Precursor Crimes, Intercept Evidence and the Priority of Security
Stuart Macdonald 
Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism
Swansea University Author:
Stuart Macdonald
Abstract
The objective of the pursue strand of the UK’s CONTEST strategy is to reduce the terrorist threat to this country by disrupting terrorists and their operations. A number of methods of disruption are available, including: prosecution; deportation; proscription; seizing and freezing assets; and, Terro...
| Published in: | Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism |
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| Published: |
Abingdon
Routledge
2014
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| Online Access: |
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415855471/ |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16646 |
| Abstract: |
The objective of the pursue strand of the UK’s CONTEST strategy is to reduce the terrorist threat to this country by disrupting terrorists and their operations. A number of methods of disruption are available, including: prosecution; deportation; proscription; seizing and freezing assets; and, Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures. Of these, the CONTEST strategy states that the preferred method is prosecution. This chapter examines this so-called ‘priority of prosecution’. Examining the UK's raft of terrorism precursor offences and its self-imposed ban on the use of intercept as evidence, the chapter argues that in fact the emphasis placed on prosecution is equivocal and better understood as a manifestation of the priority that contemporary counterterrorism policies attach to national security. |
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| Keywords: |
Counterterrorism, terrorism offences, pre-inchoate liability, intercept evidence, security |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |