If you well remember,
You are pointing me, perhaps, to Challenge: Liberty & Security, which includes M. Bigo et al.
E.g., among his works cited, Terror, Insecurity and Liberty - Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11.
Another example article by other authors (from index page), Analysis of terrorist legislation, evolution and practices of penal agencies (pdf):This edited volume questions the widespread resort to illiberal security practices by contemporary liberal regimes since 9/11, and argues that counter-terrorism is embedded into the very logic of the fields of politics and security.
Although recent debate surrounding civil rights and liberties in post-9/11 Europe has focused on the forms, provisions and legal consequences of security-led policies, this volume takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explore how these policies have come to generate illiberal practices. The book argues that policies implemented in the name of protection and national security have had a strong effect on civil liberties, human rights and social cohesion - in particular, but not only, since 9/11. The book undertakes detailed sociological enquiries concerning security agencies, and analyses public discourses on the definition of the terrorist threat. In doing so, it aims to show that the current reframing of civil rights and liberties is in part a result of the very functioning of both the political and the security fields, in that it is embedded in a broad array of domestic and transnational political, administrative and bureaucratic stakes.
[JMM note on context: ETA and Spanish anti-terr laws and policies; from conclusion of article]
See particularly, 3.2. Consequences for Democracy and for the Rule of Law; and its subsections, 3.2.1. Illegalization of a Political Party (restriction of political pluralism), 3.2.2. Criminalization of Social Movements (reduction of political dissidents), 3.2.3 Closing newspapers (reduction of liberty of expression).In order to underline the production of particular antiterrorist laws and how the antiterrorist philosophy has provoked consecutively reforms on ordinary criminal laws, we have dedicated Part 2 of the present Deliverable to it. Therefore, we have tried to prove how a number of the Criminal Code reforms, procedural rules, police and prison regulations have been modified in Spain by following that particular philosophy, i. e. how new indictable offences, penalties worsening, more police power and penitentiary restrictions have been introduced after September 11th and much more later on March 11th.
In Part 3, we have described and analyzed in two different items how penal, police and prison Spanish agencies became hard in its activities and what kind of consequences have produced the already embedded antiterrorist philosophy at the level of democratic political order. Within the first item we have tried here to develop, how criminal justice agencies have played a major role on more severe violations of human rights than before the harshness of the whole system. And, on respect to the second item we have stressed some situations regarding how freedom of expression and political dissent have been reduced or directly not allowed by closing newspapers or outlawing political parties.
Am I in the right church ? Or should I continue to blame the Dominicans, link and link.
Regards
Mike
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