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 📚

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.

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.

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.

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.

And in related great news: @morrellcentre.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!

Many thanks to @mattmatravers.bsky.social @drfassnidge.bsky.social @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social @awelsh.bsky.social Andrew Cornford and Jane Richards for their contributions, comments, and intellectual generosity.

Now all that's left is to finish writing!

Thank you Jessie!

The project - entitled "In the eyes of the jury: mock jury deliberations and lind-set material in terrorism cases" - does what it says on the tin really. This will be a fantastic opportunity to generate further insight into the impact of mind-set material in terrorism cases.

This is the relevant section of the report.

For those who are interested and can't wait until the monograph, you can read some discussion of the issues in my recent piece in Legal Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And of course, great to see that "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism" by @dinesson.bsky.social and myself is settled in its new home: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Congratulations! 🎉

Amazing! Congratulations and fantastic work👏🏼