Overview
- Develops a critical criminological approach to terrorist studies
- Promotes a critical, grounded approach whereby actors, actions and consequences are analysed according to the risk they represent
- Explores how the use of either terrorism or state crime contributes to a criminological focus which neglects vast areas of risk, and harm in the ‘war on terror’
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society (PSRCS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
The ‘War on Terror’ abandons the dominant socially-constructed discourse and application of the ‘war on terror’ and instead favours a grounded approach whereby actors, actions and consequences are analysed according to the risk they represent. Ahmed achieves this groundedapproach through situating state practices in international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Through documenting the intersectionality of these practices with radicalization in the emergence of global Jihadist organisations, the book demonstrates how state crimes contribute to terrorism. Although the book sits at the intersections of critical criminology, state crime, international/transnational crime, it is relevant to all disciplines that are concerned with state crime, terrorism and radicalization.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Shamila Ahmed is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster, UK. She specialises in the ‘war on terror’, terrorism, radicalization and state crime.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The ‘War on Terror’, State Crime & Radicalization
Book Subtitle: A Constitutive Theory of Radicalization
Authors: Shamila Ahmed
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40138-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40137-5Published: 23 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40140-5Published: 23 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40138-2Published: 22 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2517
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 262
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Victimology, War Crimes, Human Rights and Crime , Crime Control and Security, Terrorism and Political Violence