Suspect Community: People's Experience of the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in Britain

Suspect Community: People's Experience of the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in Britain

1 The Study in context 2 Policing Ports and Airports: Examination and Detention Powers 3 Examinations and Detentions at Ports and Airports: People's Experiences 4 Arrest, Search and Detention Powers 5 Arrest and Detention under the PTA: Two Case Studies 6 Arrests: People's Experiences 7 In Custody: People's Experiences 8 Interrogation: Gathering Information 9 Exclusion: The Law 10 Internal Exile: People's Experiences 11 The Impact of the Acts 12 An Assessment The first PTA was introduced in 1974, following the Birmingham pub bombings. Since then, more than 7,000 people have been arrested and detained under the PTA. Most have been released without any further action being taken against them. (...) But are such extraordinary powers needed in the fight against terrorism? Have the highly coercive forms of policing required to implement the Acts done anything to curtail the levels of political violence in Britain? Or have detentions under the Acts actually led to abuses of civil liberties in the community at large - and the Irish community in particular?

Hillyard, Paddy

London, etc.: Pluto Press 1993 pp xv + 300

SR L 121