ROUNDTABLE with Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly

‘Prevention! What do you mean?’ From the Juvenile Delinquent to Radicalisation Prevention in the United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union

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The presentation traces the changing meanings of prevention – highlighting how contemporary understandings of radicalisation interventions, partnership structures and whole-of-society referral programs are indebted to earlier work on juvenile delinquency. The juvenile delinquent was a central frame for discussions of European (and global) Crime Prevention across the twentieth century. By focusing much of their attention on the juvenile, European working groups on Crime Problems unlocked the traditional orientation of penal systems towards retributive punishment/reform (after-the-crime). Because the juvenile offender is, by definition, young, criminologists and justice ministers were able to focus attention on interrupting a potential future criminal career through targeted social policy interventions upon signs of risk. This focus on the potential future offence, rather than the offence-already committed, slowly familiarised European working groups with risk-based interventions and working. The presentation tracks how gradually, and with interruptions, this preventive frame transferred to the security field – dominating much of contemporary European and Member State counter-terrorism policy.

Charlotte Heath-Kelly is Reader in International Security at the University of Warwick. She currently leads the European Research Council funded project ‘Neoliberal Terror? The Radicalisation of Social Policy in Europe’ (2020-25). Her interest in how security policy imagines the future is a dominant feature of her current work, appearing in articles including Security Dialogue and The British Journal of Politics and IR, but she has previously published two books on the intersection of memory and terrorism: Politics of Violence (Routledge, 2013) and Death and Security: Memory and Mortality at the Bombsite (Manchester University Press, 2017).

BOOK TALK with Dr. Hager Ben Jaffel

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This book talk will present key findings from Hager Ben Jaffel’s monograph entitled Anglo-European Intelligence Cooperation: Britain in Europe, Europe in Britain (Routledge, 2019) which investigates intelligence cooperation between Britain and its continental partners in the field of counter-terrorism intelligence.

To uncover Britain’s European connection in intelligence relations, this talk will address intelligence cooperation from a practical and human dimension by discussing the everyday bureaucratic practices of UK police representatives based in Europe. It will then discuss the recent moves of British services in the context of the ‘Brexit’ negotiations and provide insights into the process through which elements of European security and intelligence cooperation have been maintained or rejected.

Hager Ben Jaffel is a research associate at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Since she received her PhD in IR at King’s College London, she has set up a team of scholars to develop a new research agenda for the study of contemporary intelligence, which aims at exploring intelligence through new lines of inquiry that challenge the canons of Intelligence Studies. In September 2021, she will be co-chairing a section entitled “The Everyday Life of Intelligence – Critique, Reflexivity and Transdisciplinarity” at the EISA annual conference. She is also conducting research on the relationships between security and politics and how these play out in practices of security professionals. A manuscript on this topic has just been published with European Security. Her research has also appeared in International Political Sociology and Intelligence and National Security.