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Having spent a period on secondment as a Regional Security Unit social worker, the author reflects on the challenge of working in a multi-disciplinary team, and the problems of resettlement for difficult-to-place, mentally disordered offenders.

This conference sought to stimulate and encourage the development of a Europe-wide anti-detention movement. It brought together representatives of campaigns, former detainees, asylum seekers and individuals opposed to immigration detention, a total of 161 people originating from 29 countries. Notes the country reports from European delegates (France, Italy, Belgium and the UK). The conference finished with a demonstration at Campsfield at the back of the detention centre. Delegates spoke over the fence to detainees in 10 languages. Detainees shouted in reply and showed their thanks by sending 3 packets of biscuits over the fence to the demonstrators. (Quotes from original text)

It has often been pointed out that terrorist attacks place democratic values under pressure. Indeed, terrorists may well have the aim of forcing democracies to reveal their lack of commitment to such values & their readiness to embrace authoritarian measures. This chapter will argue that the AntiTerrorism, Crime & Security Act 2001 (ATCSA), introduced by the Labour government as a response to the 11 September (2001) attacks, satisfies this aim because it comes into conflict with a number of the guarantees of the European Convention on Human Rights received into domestic law under the Human Rights Act 1998. Indeed, the tension between those rights & the ATCSA measures is such that to introduce the latter the government had to derogate from the fundamental guarantee of the right to liberty of the person. The mounting tension discerned by commentators between the Labour government's increasingly authoritarian measures & the Human Rights Act that it itself introduced currently reaches its climax, it is argued, in Part 4 of ACTSA. An exploration of that tension forms the central theme of this chapter. Adapted from the source document.