Children, Terrorism, and the Rule of Law
This paper surveys a number of recently reported judgments referred to collectively as the ‘radicalisation cases in the family courts’. These cases offer a family law approach to the phenomenon of ‘child terrorists’: those children who are suspected of attempting to travel to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (or who are at risk of being taken by their parents to Syria and Iraq for the same purpose); children who are at risk of being radicalised in the family home; and children who are at risk of being involved in terrorist activities either at home or abroad. The paper locates these cases within the two other approaches adopted by the state to deal with children suspected of terrorism: criminal prosecutions and the government’s flagship deradicalisation programme Channel. The paper argues that these three different approaches pose a series of challenges to the rule of law and raise interesting avenues for future research.
Date:
26 November 2018, 16:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Seminar Room C
Speaker:
Dr Jessie Blackbourn (CSLS, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Organiser:
Susan Bright (CSLS)
Organiser contact email address:
admin@csls.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Katie Hayward
