Lecturer in law, University of York. Criminal law, criminal process, and evidence; some mental health. Primarily working on terror-law/policy and discretion: 'Criminalizing Terrorism' forthcoming with OUP.
Dr Kajsa Dinesson
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The Commission's report assesses the effectiveness and proportionality of the UK's counter-terrorism framework. It makes a number of important recommendations for reform in an area in dire need of change across law and practice 👇🏼
Dr Kajsa Dinesson
We propose that engagement with the social harms of counterterrorism offers an avenue towards nuanced critical scholarship equipped with the tools to critically interrogate state powers and interventions. This volume brings together critical scholars across disciplines to develop on this proposal.
📣 Call for contributors 📣
from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'.
Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼
We have secured a number of excellent contributions already, on topics including the harms of proscription, secrecy and open justice, policing and hybrid measures, family interventions, counter-terrorism at borders and in bordered spaces, the manosphere, data doubles, and more.
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There is still time to get your abstract in! See details below - and please share with your network 👇🏼
Interested? Please email a short abstract (300w max) to [email protected] and [email protected] by November 7th. Accepted chapter drafts will be due end of March 2026.
Please share this call with your network! 📣
We are seeking a few additional short chapters (8000w) on:
🚨The local impacts of global counter-terrorism in the global south
🌱Environmental harms/oppression of environmental activism
We particularly invite scholars from the global south and indigenous perspectives to consider contributing.
I am particularly glad to see the report cite my work on terrorism prosecutions, collection of information, and mindset evidence. The commission echoes my concerns, as well as some of my proposals for reform 📚
We are compiling an edited collection with Bristol University Press. It builds on our recent paper in Justice, Power and Resistance and its case for zemiology (the study of social harm) offering an avenue for critical work to break free of the limitations of a criminocentric perspective.
