Rachel Monaghan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Monaghan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Monaghan |
| SIGNATURE | MONAGHAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1507-7839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Outsourcing of State Security: A Case Study of US Intervention in Laos, 1962–1975
The United States (US) involvement in covert action abroad has received significant scholarly attention, including the outsourcing of force to third parties, such as foreign death squads, private paramilitaries, and more recently private military and security companies. However, less attention has been paid to the routine and everyday mechanisms the US state uses to administer outsourced force, and the impacts this has both on the combatants and …
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else
Since the early 1970s, the United Kingdom (U.K.) has experienced political violence undertaken by militant animal rights actors. This violence has included the use of car bombs and incendiary devices, which are more akin to the tactics of a terrorist campaign. Similar acts in the United States have been described as “eco-terrorism” yet this label has not gained traction in the U.K. This article is concerned with the labeling of militant animal ri…
Examining the relevance of ‘Evil Done’ to the current terrorist threat landscape in the United Kingdom
Since the release of the Clarke and Newman’s ‘EVIL DONE’ framework in 2006, there has been limited empirical research on its capacity to predict target attractiveness and vulnerability as intended. This study investigated the utility of the framework in the context of the current United Kingdom (UK) threat landscape, including additions from the [Marchment, Z., & Gill, P. (2022). Spatial decision making of terrorist target selection: Introducing …
Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism: An Analysis of the Current Considerations and Barriers Inhibiting the Adoption of Counterterrorism Protective Security Measures
While much of the literature concerning counterterrorism focuses on policies and strategies aimed at removing either the terrorist environment and/or the groups or individuals willing to utilize political violence to achieve their goal(s), there is a much smaller body of work concerned with antiterrorism, namely those defensive measures that are designed to prevent or deter terrorist attacks. Increasingly, crowded places have become popular targe…
Countering terrorism, protecting critical national infrastructure and infrastructure assets through the use of novel behavioral biometrics
Since 9/11, there has been an increased interest in the use of biometric technologies as a way to counter the threat of terrorism and to protect a nation's critical national infrastructure and infrastructure assets. Biometric features can be used to verify an individual's identity or in the identification of an individual. Such features can be divided into two types, namely physical and behavioral characteristics. Physical biometrics are concerne…
Automatic Gait Recognition and its Potential Role in Counterterrorism
Closed-circuit television footage can be used to assemble an often-complex picture of an incident and aid in the identification of suspects after a crime or terrorist attack has occurred. For example, such footage allowed the police to not only identify the 7/7 London bombers but also to piece together the details of the bombers' movements prior to the attack. In the case of the London bombers little attempt was made to disguise their identities …
Special Issue: Contemporary Issues and Innovation in Counterterrorism
Significant and high impact terrorist attacks in recent times have demonstrated the complexity that exists in countering terrorism globally
Understanding terrorism: A socio-economic perspective
Caruso and Locatelli's edited collection is a welcome addition to the literature on terrorism as it examines the phenomenon from both an economics and political science perspective. The book includ
Why “good kids” turn into deadly terrorists
Why “good kids” turn into deadly terrorists." Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 8(2), pp. 160–161
Biometrics and counter-terrorism: The case of gait recognition
The use of biometrics has become a popular method to counter the threat of terrorism. Biometric features can be used to confirm identity (biometric authentication) or to identify an individual (biometric identification). Such features include physical (e.g. fingerprints and DNA) and behavioural characteristics (e.g. handwriting and gait). This paper is concerned with one type of behavioural characteristics, namely gait. Gait refers to an individu…
Not Quite Terrorism: Animal Rights Extremism in the United Kingdom
Political violence undertaken in the name of animal rights has been ongoing for some 35 years in the United Kingdom and yet such activity is commonly termed extremism, not terrorism. Existing counterterrorism measures have not been utilized by the state against individuals and groups engaged in such violence. This article explores the criminal justice response to the various types of political violence, which have been claimed by groups like the …
Origins of political extremism
Countering terrorism through the use of informants: The Northern Ireland experience
Governments when faced with countering terrorism have a number of options at their disposal. One such option is the collection of intelligence, and human intelligence can provide valuable information on terrorist groups and their activities. 'Tout', 'informer', 'informant', 'source', 'agent', 'grass', 'mole' and 'nark' are some of the labels used to describe what law enforcement terms a Covert Human Intelligence Source. They are in fact individua…
Political reverberations: Northern Ireland's conflict, peace process and paramilitaries
After years of violence, which resulted in the deaths of more than 3600 people, the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement was signed in 1998 between the British and Irish governments and endorsed by the ma
Forward to the Past? Loyalist Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland Since 1994
This article considers in detail loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the paramilitary cease-fires of 1994. The continuing nature of contemporary loyalist violence is documented with reference to sectarian attacks against members of the “Other”/Catholic community and associated symbols of that community, violence directed at other loyalists, and the potential for future violence given constitutional uncertainty regarding North…
Defining ‘terrorism’: Moving towards a more integrated and interdisciplinary understanding of political violence
The definitional problem of ‘what is terrorism?’ has long vexed those interested in exploring the diverse phenomenon of political violence. Provizer (1997, p. 3) notes that ‘[al]though the subject
Paul Rogers: Global Security and the War on Terror
Given the recent plethora of books concerned with terrorism following September with (9/11), Paul Rogers's book is a welcome addition in that it outlines the post-Cold War security paradigm and fur
Behaviours indicative of bullying among young and juvenile male offenders: A study of perpetrator and victim characteristics
The actual characteristics of young offenders involved in behaviours indicative of “bullying others” or of “being bullied” have received only limited research attention. No research to date has focused on prison‐based behavioural characteristics. The present study aimed to explore these characteristics in a sample of young and juvenile male offenders. Subsidiary aims included examining the nature and extent of behaviours indicative of bullying, a…
Informal justice in the city
The use of violence by paramilitaries to punish and to discipline members of their own respective communities is an established practice developed throughout the course of the ‘Troubles’ and continues in the post-conflict period. Paramilitary ‘punishments’ are primarily an urban phenomenon with the bulk of recorded ‘punishments’ occurring within the greater Belfast area. This paper, drawing upon the authors' own database of such attacks, examines…
An Imperfect Peace: Paramilitary 'Punishments' in Northern Ireland
Since the beginning of the Troubles, alternative forms of justice have emerged in many working class areas of Northern Ireland. Such justice operates outside the formal state system and is undertaken by paramilitaries. This article explores the nature of this informal justice including an identification of activities liable for ‘punishment’, the procedures involved and the types of ‘punishment’ meted out. Moreover, this article examines the patte…
"The Return of "Captain Moonlight: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland
In the working-class areas of Northern Ireland alternative forms of justice operating in parallel to the State's criminal justice system exist. This informal criminal justice system, administered by paramilitaries, includes threats, warnings, beatings, shootings, and executions. Informal justice mechanisms emerged in the early days of "the Troubles" and have continued to develop. This article maps the development of informal justice in both repub…
Single-Issue Terrorism: A Neglected Phenomenon
The willingness of some single-issue groups to use violence in the pursuit of their cause has received surprisingly little attention within the literature on terrorism. This article seeks to add to our understanding of this phenomenonnamely that of single-issue terrorismby focusing on the increasing tendency of groups within the British animal rights movement to utilize violent methods in order to achieve their objectives. The article will seek t…
Terrorism in the name of animal rights
(1999). Terrorism in the name of animal rights. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 11, The Future of Terrorism, pp. 159-169
Animal rights and violent protest
The arguments for the better treatment of animals underwent a dramatic change in the 1970s with the publication of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and the work of Tom Regan. These new works challenged the previous moral orthodoxy which had suffused the animal welfare/protection movement and espoused the view, in the case of Regan, that animals had rights or, according to Singer, that they should be granted ‘equal consideration’. The 1970s also s…
Votes for women: An analysis of the militant campaign
When one reads the literature on the militant suffragettes, one is left with the impression that the extent of their militancy was confined to smashing a few windows, slashing some works of art and, at most, setting fire to empty houses. This picture does not, however, stand up to closer examination. This article seeks to show how the militant campaign for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom embodies the characteristics of terrorism. The milit…
An Imperfect Peace: Paramilitary 'Punishments' in Northern Ireland
Since the beginning of the Troubles, alternative forms of justice have emerged in many working class areas of Northern Ireland. Such justice operates outside the formal state system and is undertaken by paramilitaries. This article explores the nature of this informal justice including an identification of activities liable for ‘punishment’, the procedures involved and the types of ‘punishment’ meted out. Moreover, this article examines the patte…
Not Quite Terrorism: Animal Rights Extremism in the United Kingdom
Political violence undertaken in the name of animal rights has been ongoing for some 35 years in the United Kingdom and yet such activity is commonly termed extremism, not terrorism. Existing counterterrorism measures have not been utilized by the state against individuals and groups engaged in such violence. This article explores the criminal justice response to the various types of political violence, which have been claimed by groups like the …
Forward to the Past? Loyalist Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland Since 1994
This article considers in detail loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the paramilitary cease-fires of 1994. The continuing nature of contemporary loyalist violence is documented with reference to sectarian attacks against members of the “Other”/Catholic community and associated symbols of that community, violence directed at other loyalists, and the potential for future violence given constitutional uncertainty regarding North…
Informal justice in the city
The use of violence by paramilitaries to punish and to discipline members of their own respective communities is an established practice developed throughout the course of the ‘Troubles’ and continues in the post-conflict period. Paramilitary ‘punishments’ are primarily an urban phenomenon with the bulk of recorded ‘punishments’ occurring within the greater Belfast area. This paper, drawing upon the authors' own database of such attacks, examines…
Animal rights and violent protest
The arguments for the better treatment of animals underwent a dramatic change in the 1970s with the publication of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and the work of Tom Regan. These new works challenged the previous moral orthodoxy which had suffused the animal welfare/protection movement and espoused the view, in the case of Regan, that animals had rights or, according to Singer, that they should be granted ‘equal consideration’. The 1970s also s…
Behaviours indicative of bullying among young and juvenile male offenders: A study of perpetrator and victim characteristics
The actual characteristics of young offenders involved in behaviours indicative of “bullying others” or of “being bullied” have received only limited research attention. No research to date has focused on prison‐based behavioural characteristics. The present study aimed to explore these characteristics in a sample of young and juvenile male offenders. Subsidiary aims included examining the nature and extent of behaviours indicative of bullying, a…
"The Return of "Captain Moonlight: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland
In the working-class areas of Northern Ireland alternative forms of justice operating in parallel to the State's criminal justice system exist. This informal criminal justice system, administered by paramilitaries, includes threats, warnings, beatings, shootings, and executions. Informal justice mechanisms emerged in the early days of "the Troubles" and have continued to develop. This article maps the development of informal justice in both repub…
Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism: An Analysis of the Current Considerations and Barriers Inhibiting the Adoption of Counterterrorism Protective Security Measures
While much of the literature concerning counterterrorism focuses on policies and strategies aimed at removing either the terrorist environment and/or the groups or individuals willing to utilize political violence to achieve their goal(s), there is a much smaller body of work concerned with antiterrorism, namely those defensive measures that are designed to prevent or deter terrorist attacks. Increasingly, crowded places have become popular targe…
Terrorism in the name of animal rights
(1999). Terrorism in the name of animal rights. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 11, The Future of Terrorism, pp. 159-169
Votes for women: An analysis of the militant campaign
When one reads the literature on the militant suffragettes, one is left with the impression that the extent of their militancy was confined to smashing a few windows, slashing some works of art and, at most, setting fire to empty houses. This picture does not, however, stand up to closer examination. This article seeks to show how the militant campaign for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom embodies the characteristics of terrorism. The milit…
The Outsourcing of State Security: A Case Study of US Intervention in Laos, 1962–1975
The United States (US) involvement in covert action abroad has received significant scholarly attention, including the outsourcing of force to third parties, such as foreign death squads, private paramilitaries, and more recently private military and security companies. However, less attention has been paid to the routine and everyday mechanisms the US state uses to administer outsourced force, and the impacts this has both on the combatants and …
Examining the relevance of ‘Evil Done’ to the current terrorist threat landscape in the United Kingdom
Since the release of the Clarke and Newman’s ‘EVIL DONE’ framework in 2006, there has been limited empirical research on its capacity to predict target attractiveness and vulnerability as intended. This study investigated the utility of the framework in the context of the current United Kingdom (UK) threat landscape, including additions from the [Marchment, Z., & Gill, P. (2022). Spatial decision making of terrorist target selection: Introducing …
Special Issue: Contemporary Issues and Innovation in Counterterrorism
Significant and high impact terrorist attacks in recent times have demonstrated the complexity that exists in countering terrorism globally
Countering terrorism through the use of informants: The Northern Ireland experience
Governments when faced with countering terrorism have a number of options at their disposal. One such option is the collection of intelligence, and human intelligence can provide valuable information on terrorist groups and their activities. 'Tout', 'informer', 'informant', 'source', 'agent', 'grass', 'mole' and 'nark' are some of the labels used to describe what law enforcement terms a Covert Human Intelligence Source. They are in fact individua…
Single-Issue Terrorism: A Neglected Phenomenon
The willingness of some single-issue groups to use violence in the pursuit of their cause has received surprisingly little attention within the literature on terrorism. This article seeks to add to our understanding of this phenomenonnamely that of single-issue terrorismby focusing on the increasing tendency of groups within the British animal rights movement to utilize violent methods in order to achieve their objectives. The article will seek t…
Animal rights and violent protest
The arguments for the better treatment of animals underwent a dramatic change in the 1970s with the publication of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and the work of Tom Regan. These new works challenged the previous moral orthodoxy which had suffused the animal welfare/protection movement and espoused the view, in the case of Regan, that animals had rights or, according to Singer, that they should be granted ‘equal consideration’. The 1970s also s…
Votes for women: An analysis of the militant campaign
When one reads the literature on the militant suffragettes, one is left with the impression that the extent of their militancy was confined to smashing a few windows, slashing some works of art and, at most, setting fire to empty houses. This picture does not, however, stand up to closer examination. This article seeks to show how the militant campaign for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom embodies the characteristics of terrorism. The milit…
Terrorism in the name of animal rights
(1999). Terrorism in the name of animal rights. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 11, The Future of Terrorism, pp. 159-169
Single-Issue Terrorism: A Neglected Phenomenon
The willingness of some single-issue groups to use violence in the pursuit of their cause has received surprisingly little attention within the literature on terrorism. This article seeks to add to our understanding of this phenomenonnamely that of single-issue terrorismby focusing on the increasing tendency of groups within the British animal rights movement to utilize violent methods in order to achieve their objectives. The article will seek t…
"The Return of "Captain Moonlight: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland
In the working-class areas of Northern Ireland alternative forms of justice operating in parallel to the State's criminal justice system exist. This informal criminal justice system, administered by paramilitaries, includes threats, warnings, beatings, shootings, and executions. Informal justice mechanisms emerged in the early days of "the Troubles" and have continued to develop. This article maps the development of informal justice in both repub…
An Imperfect Peace: Paramilitary 'Punishments' in Northern Ireland
Since the beginning of the Troubles, alternative forms of justice have emerged in many working class areas of Northern Ireland. Such justice operates outside the formal state system and is undertaken by paramilitaries. This article explores the nature of this informal justice including an identification of activities liable for ‘punishment’, the procedures involved and the types of ‘punishment’ meted out. Moreover, this article examines the patte…
Behaviours indicative of bullying among young and juvenile male offenders: A study of perpetrator and victim characteristics
The actual characteristics of young offenders involved in behaviours indicative of “bullying others” or of “being bullied” have received only limited research attention. No research to date has focused on prison‐based behavioural characteristics. The present study aimed to explore these characteristics in a sample of young and juvenile male offenders. Subsidiary aims included examining the nature and extent of behaviours indicative of bullying, a…
Informal justice in the city
The use of violence by paramilitaries to punish and to discipline members of their own respective communities is an established practice developed throughout the course of the ‘Troubles’ and continues in the post-conflict period. Paramilitary ‘punishments’ are primarily an urban phenomenon with the bulk of recorded ‘punishments’ occurring within the greater Belfast area. This paper, drawing upon the authors' own database of such attacks, examines…
Paul Rogers: Global Security and the War on Terror
Given the recent plethora of books concerned with terrorism following September with (9/11), Paul Rogers's book is a welcome addition in that it outlines the post-Cold War security paradigm and fur
Defining ‘terrorism’: Moving towards a more integrated and interdisciplinary understanding of political violence
The definitional problem of ‘what is terrorism?’ has long vexed those interested in exploring the diverse phenomenon of political violence. Provizer (1997, p. 3) notes that ‘[al]though the subject
Countering terrorism through the use of informants: The Northern Ireland experience
Governments when faced with countering terrorism have a number of options at their disposal. One such option is the collection of intelligence, and human intelligence can provide valuable information on terrorist groups and their activities. 'Tout', 'informer', 'informant', 'source', 'agent', 'grass', 'mole' and 'nark' are some of the labels used to describe what law enforcement terms a Covert Human Intelligence Source. They are in fact individua…
Political reverberations: Northern Ireland's conflict, peace process and paramilitaries
After years of violence, which resulted in the deaths of more than 3600 people, the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement was signed in 1998 between the British and Irish governments and endorsed by the ma
Forward to the Past? Loyalist Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland Since 1994
This article considers in detail loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the paramilitary cease-fires of 1994. The continuing nature of contemporary loyalist violence is documented with reference to sectarian attacks against members of the “Other”/Catholic community and associated symbols of that community, violence directed at other loyalists, and the potential for future violence given constitutional uncertainty regarding North…
Origins of political extremism
Not Quite Terrorism: Animal Rights Extremism in the United Kingdom
Political violence undertaken in the name of animal rights has been ongoing for some 35 years in the United Kingdom and yet such activity is commonly termed extremism, not terrorism. Existing counterterrorism measures have not been utilized by the state against individuals and groups engaged in such violence. This article explores the criminal justice response to the various types of political violence, which have been claimed by groups like the …
Understanding terrorism: A socio-economic perspective
Caruso and Locatelli's edited collection is a welcome addition to the literature on terrorism as it examines the phenomenon from both an economics and political science perspective. The book includ
Why “good kids” turn into deadly terrorists
Why “good kids” turn into deadly terrorists." Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 8(2), pp. 160–161
Biometrics and counter-terrorism: The case of gait recognition
The use of biometrics has become a popular method to counter the threat of terrorism. Biometric features can be used to confirm identity (biometric authentication) or to identify an individual (biometric identification). Such features include physical (e.g. fingerprints and DNA) and behavioural characteristics (e.g. handwriting and gait). This paper is concerned with one type of behavioural characteristics, namely gait. Gait refers to an individu…
Countering terrorism, protecting critical national infrastructure and infrastructure assets through the use of novel behavioral biometrics
Since 9/11, there has been an increased interest in the use of biometric technologies as a way to counter the threat of terrorism and to protect a nation's critical national infrastructure and infrastructure assets. Biometric features can be used to verify an individual's identity or in the identification of an individual. Such features can be divided into two types, namely physical and behavioral characteristics. Physical biometrics are concerne…
Automatic Gait Recognition and its Potential Role in Counterterrorism
Closed-circuit television footage can be used to assemble an often-complex picture of an incident and aid in the identification of suspects after a crime or terrorist attack has occurred. For example, such footage allowed the police to not only identify the 7/7 London bombers but also to piece together the details of the bombers' movements prior to the attack. In the case of the London bombers little attempt was made to disguise their identities …
Special Issue: Contemporary Issues and Innovation in Counterterrorism
Significant and high impact terrorist attacks in recent times have demonstrated the complexity that exists in countering terrorism globally
Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism: An Analysis of the Current Considerations and Barriers Inhibiting the Adoption of Counterterrorism Protective Security Measures
While much of the literature concerning counterterrorism focuses on policies and strategies aimed at removing either the terrorist environment and/or the groups or individuals willing to utilize political violence to achieve their goal(s), there is a much smaller body of work concerned with antiterrorism, namely those defensive measures that are designed to prevent or deter terrorist attacks. Increasingly, crowded places have become popular targe…
Militant Animal Rights Activity: Terrorism, Extremism or Something Else
Since the early 1970s, the United Kingdom (U.K.) has experienced political violence undertaken by militant animal rights actors. This violence has included the use of car bombs and incendiary devices, which are more akin to the tactics of a terrorist campaign. Similar acts in the United States have been described as “eco-terrorism” yet this label has not gained traction in the U.K. This article is concerned with the labeling of militant animal ri…
Examining the relevance of ‘Evil Done’ to the current terrorist threat landscape in the United Kingdom
Since the release of the Clarke and Newman’s ‘EVIL DONE’ framework in 2006, there has been limited empirical research on its capacity to predict target attractiveness and vulnerability as intended. This study investigated the utility of the framework in the context of the current United Kingdom (UK) threat landscape, including additions from the [Marchment, Z., & Gill, P. (2022). Spatial decision making of terrorist target selection: Introducing …
The Outsourcing of State Security: A Case Study of US Intervention in Laos, 1962–1975
The United States (US) involvement in covert action abroad has received significant scholarly attention, including the outsourcing of force to third parties, such as foreign death squads, private paramilitaries, and more recently private military and security companies. However, less attention has been paid to the routine and everyday mechanisms the US state uses to administer outsourced force, and the impacts this has both on the combatants and …
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