De politionele aanpak van terrorisme: Voorbij de keuze tussen control en consent

The public police can adopt various approaches to address the problem of terrorism. This paper starts with the classic distinction between the ‘control’ and the ‘consent’ approaches. It illustrates how each of both approaches has its strong points, but also its potential perverse effects (increasing rather than decreasing the risk of terrorism). The article observes a number of limitations of this twofold controlconsent typology and proposes to address these by expanding it to a fourfold typology inspired by grid-group cultural theory (originally developed by Mary Douglas). Like control and consent, the two additional approaches not only have advantages but also potential perverse effects. In order to prevent those perverse effects, counterterrorism policies should provide a well-balanced and context-sensitive mix of the four approaches. It is argued that such a ‘clumsy’ mix will be more robust and less likely to generate perverse effects than policies that coherently rely on less than four approaches.

Jaar van publicatie:2020

Toegankelijkheid:Open