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16 - Reducing terrorist risk: integrating jurisdictional and opportunity approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2009

By
Joseph Clare  and
Frank Morgan
Edited by
Werner G. K. Stritzke ,
Stephan Lewandowsky ,
David Denemark ,
Joseph Clare  and
Frank Morgan
Werner G. K. Stritzke
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Perth
Stephan Lewandowsky
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Perth
David Denemark
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Perth
Joseph Clare
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Perth
Frank Morgan
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Perth
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Summary

After September 11, 2001, some experts have argued that citizens of Western democracies are being subjected to new global forms of terrorism (Beck, 1997). The popular media have reinforced the view that we are living in a qualitatively different world (Mythen and Walklate, 2006). A passage from The Australian newspaper (September 11, 2006) captures this position:

“I knew … the world was quite never [sic] going to be the same again. You couldn't escape the realisation that this was something like nothing else,” [former Australian Prime Minister] John Howard recalled. He had met Mr. Bush the day before the attacks, and “George Bush and I didn't talk about terrorism on September 10, 2001.” The Prime Minister said Australians had “adjusted in a very sensible way” since then. “They understand things have changed, they accept the need for new laws, they support those laws but they are getting on with their lives and doing the things we want to do while having in the back of our minds there may be one day a terrorist attack which (will) inflict mass casualties on this country,” Mr Howard said.

(Shanahan, 2006)

These “new laws” that John Howard was discussing included the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act (No. 2) 2005, which gave markedly increased powers to Australian authorities in a range of areas including surveillance, detention, and individually focused control orders.

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Terrorism and Torture
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
 , pp. 325 - 344
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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