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.
The “psychologisation of counter-extremism” is happening apace; this 2020 journal article argues that this is to evade the charge of racism in managing Muslim political agency.
This short journal article by Dr. Khadijah Elshayyal considers the impact of the statutory promotion of ‘fundamental British values’ through Prevent on Muslims in the UK.
The rise of the Preventive State assumes security as a core function; this journal article considers the drivers, multiple manifestations, and consequences of preventive policies for criminal justice.
Prevent is part of a wider surveillance strategy of Muslim civic agency, and this journal article was one of the first to explore this as a colonialist approach.
This journal article acknowledges the presence of Islam and campus and the presence of Prevent. It calls for free speech as the answer to polarising conditions.
Among the first empirical studies of how healthcare workers are trained to perform a counter-terrorism role under the UK Prevent strategy, this report evidences safeguarding professionals ethical concerns.
By applying counter insurgency frameworks to modern counter-extremism, this journal article argues that the UK’s Prevent strategy is a counter-insurgency tool.
Muslim integration is a subject rife with negative rhetoric, but this journal article rejects and challenges this, while highlighting racism as a determiner.
This report fundamentally encourages a rethink of commonly held theories related to radicalisation and extremism.
This journal article discusses state-Muslim engagement by considering the implications of the Prevent strategy.
