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The Price Of Prevention: Anti-Terrorism Pre-Crime Measures And International Human Rights Law,, Arturo J. Carrillo
The Price Of Prevention: Anti-Terrorism Pre-Crime Measures And International Human Rights Law,, Arturo J. Carrillo
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How far can law go to prevent violent acts of terrorism from happening? This Article examines the response by a number of Western democratic States to that question. These States have enacted special legal mechanisms that can be called ‘anti-terrorist pre-crime measures.’ Anti-terrorist pre-crime measures, or ATPCMs for short, are conditions or restrictions imposed on a person by law enforcement authorities as the outcome of a legal process set up to identify and neutralize potential sources of terrorist activity before it occurs. The issue is whether the ATCPMs regimes in existence today comply with the corresponding States’ international obligations under …