Prevent Watch

People's Review of Prevent

The People's Review of Prevent

The People’s Review of Prevent is an alternative review to the Government Shawcross Review.

This review provides a voice to the people most impacted by the Prevent Duty.
Prevent is described as ‘safeguarding’ children from harms. However, under Prevent, safeguarding is focused on protecting the wider public from children believed to be ‘risky’, rather than protecting children from harms.

Throughout our report we present case studies that show how real these harms can be and the distress they cause to children and their families and carers.

Spatialized Islamophobia by Kawtar Najib

Spatialized Islamophobia

Kawtar Najib’s 2021 book reveals the multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia in Paris and London. Najib also questions the whiteness of the discipline of geography, which impacts studies of this kind.

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extremism john berger

Extremism: A book by John Berger

Written by John Berger and published in August 2018, this book attempts to understand what extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can lead to violence.

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