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At the heart of the terrorism policing powers in the Terrorism Act 2000 is arrest without warrant under section 41. Its traditional purpose is to allow for the interrogation of suspects. A second, and mounting, reason is to facilitate forensic testing by explosives analysis, DNA profiling,...
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The post-9/11 intensified attention to the financing of terrorism has often focused on the interaction with the activities of charities. Their vulnerabilities have been most underlined by the Financial Action Task Force. The resultant qualitative prominence given to anti-terrorism financing...
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(human rights) objections. The second, more prevalent and sustainable, approach involves administrative controls, as …
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, perpetrated by Islamic extremists from foreign lands, have branded American consciousness perhaps even more deeply than any other tragedy to befall the nation. The first foreign attack on the mainland United States in nearly 200 years, September 11 has been...
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Debate continues as to the transformations in terrorism evidenced by the September 11 attacks and since that time. Some, including the former U.S. President, point to changes in the nature of terrorism and argue that September 11 constituted a wholly new form of terrorism that demanded a novel...
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appears to be an endemic and endless risk. The embedded nature of the terrorist risk appears to demand the treatment of one …
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At a Bio-Terrorism Conference at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on March 31, 2006, the government participants were asked what they would do if a superior instructed them not to disclose information to the public about the likely grave health affects of an ongoing bio-terrorist...
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Terrorist prisoners pose various special risks for the penal system, leading to questions about the appropriate sentence and prison regime, and the circumstances applicable to release and post-release. The triggers for release are central to this paper because they have been the subject of...
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to ‘put respect for human rights at the centre of our response to the terrorist threat ...’. Whether this mature polity …
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