Overview
- Focus on the free speech implications of the new landscape of counter terrorism powers and offences
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About this book
Located within wider debates about ‘security versus liberty’ in our post 9/11 world, the book analyses the new landscape of UK counter terrorism powers and offences and focuses upon the deleterious consequences of the so-called ‘war on terror’ on freedom of political expression and association. Questioning the compatibility of recent speech-limiting measures with liberalism’s established commitment to free speech and international human rights norms, the book takes a critical look at new powers to proscribe ‘extremist’ political parties, possession offences and other criminal controls (eg. Official Secrets Act prosecutions) as well as new offences such as ‘glorification’ of terrorism. Less visible, extra-legal forms of censorship are also evaluated. The monograph concludes by asking how a more vigorous defence of unorthodox and unpopular forms of expression might be safeguarded in the UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terror and the War on Dissent
Book Subtitle: Freedom of Expression in the Age of Al-Qaeda
Authors: Ian Cram
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00637-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-00636-4Published: 16 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42635-3Published: 31 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-00637-1Published: 29 June 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 170
Topics: Political Science, Human Rights, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Criminology and Criminal Justice, general