Overview
- Offers an up-to-date examination of radicalisation, security and terrorism, with a focus on the education sector and implications for policy
- Draws on interviews with UK university lecturers to examine their responses to the new public sector duty towards counter-terrorism
- Highlights the inadequacies of hardline government approaches to terrorism including tactics such as ‘stop and search’
- Speaks to academics, security personnel and police in the UK and beyond
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society (PSRCS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book charts contemporary developments in counter-extremism within the UK education sector. Set against the background of the controversial Prevent strategy the book focuses on the expansion of counter‑extremism into education and draws on key legislation such as the Counter Terrorism and Security Act (2015) that imposed a statutory counter-extremism duty on public sector workers in the UK. The authors provide a wide-ranging critique that draws on theories of surveillance and power, an international review of counter‑extremism educational initiatives and a series of interviews with UK lecturers. Terrorism in the Classroom highlights the problems that occur when counter-extremism becomes an objective of education and a part of the curriculum, as well as the anxiety that is felt by educators who have been deputised into the role of counter-extremism practitioners. It will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Criminology, International Relations, Politics and Education.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Imran Awan is Professor of Criminology and Co-Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology, Birmingham City University, UK.
Keith Spiller is Lecturer in Criminology and Programme Director for the MA in Security Studies at Birmingham City University, UK.
Andrew Whiting is Senior Lecturer in Security Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terrorism in the Classroom
Book Subtitle: Security, Surveillance and a Public Duty to Act
Authors: Imran Awan, Keith Spiller, Andrew Whiting
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01710-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01709-5Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01710-1Published: 29 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2517
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 129
Topics: Terrorism, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Public Policy, Crime Prevention, Educational Policy and Politics