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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figure -- Table -- Preface -- Notes -- Introduction -- What is "right-wing extremism"? -- Notes -- 1 The right response? -- What has been the focus of research into right-wing extremism in the U.K. thus far? -- What do we know about how the state currently responds to right-wing extremism? -- Responses to hate crime -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Putting the Prevent in preventing right-wing extremism -- Prevent pre-2011 -- The Channel programme -- Connecting Communities programme -- 2011: The year of the Great Divorce -- The Prevent Strategy and the English Defence League -- How has the Prevent Strategy been delivered with regard to right-wing extremism post-2011? -- The Extremism Taskforce -- The Prevent Strategy and counter extremism -- The moving target -- Notes -- 3 Luton: "where it all began" -- Protest activity -- Tactics employed in response to the English Defence League -- Protest Liaison Teams (PLT) -- Community messaging and reassurance -- Youth diversionary tactics -- The role of the Prevent Strategy -- The cost of protest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Newcastle: rolling out the welcome mat -- Protest activity -- Tactics employed in response to the EDL -- The role of the Prevent Strategy -- The "right" to protest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Waltham Forest: into "the lion's den" -- Protest activity -- Tactics employed in response to the English Defence League -- The role of the Prevent Strategy -- Channel -- The external threat -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The policy muddle -- A parity of response? -- The impact on Channel -- United we stand -- Divided we fall -- A longer-term strategy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Back to basics.
In: Routledge studies in extremism and democracy
Introduction -- 1 The right response? -- 2 Putting the Prevent in preventing right-wing extremism -- 3 Luton: "where it all began" -- 4 Newcastle: rolling out the welcome mat -- 5 Waltham Forest: into "the lion's den" -- 6 The policy muddle -- 7 Back to basics.
In: Routledge studies in extremism and democracy
In 2011 the U.K. Government reviewed its counter terrorism Prevent Strategy to include "all forms of extremism" with an emphasis on right-wing extremism. This book - written by the former Head of Strategyand Policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Prevent - provides the most detailed assessment yet of this shift in emphasis. It explores how the inclusion of right-wing extremism within the counter terrorism Prevent Strategy impacted local responses to the English Defence League. This is explored through numerous interviews and several case studies which were carried out by the author while he was serving as a senior police officer within the Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police Service. The book balances empirical research with practical recommendations for policymakers and practitioners from a unique "insider" perspective. This book will be of appeal to an array of audiences including scholars and students of Terrorism Studies, professionals working in the areas of counter terrorism, public order policing and the promotion of community cohesion, and to those who have an interest in wider non-political responses to right-wing extremism.
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