Peter Alan Sproat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Alan Sproat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sproat |
| SIGNATURE | SPROAT P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sunderland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1805-8636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pursue: Has the National Crime Agency substantially reduced the level of serious and organised crime in the UK
The Serious and Organised Crime Agency and the National Crime Squad: A comparison of their output from open source materials
The research note attempts to compare the law enforcement work of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to that of its predecessor, the National Crime Squad, within the context of the extra financial resources given to the former. In so doing it raises interesting questions about the efficiency of the SOCA and the usefulness of official annual reports in the process of accountability
Researching, writing and teaching genocide: Sources on the internet
The United Nations and the right to self‐determination: A response to Mahalingam's reply
Can the state commit acts of terrorism: An opinion and some qualitative replies to a questionnaire
This article follows on from that entitled The Quantitative Results of a Questionnaire on State Terrorism published in TPV 8/3. Based upon the same 120 replies by academics to a questionnaire on terrorism by those in power, this article reveals many of the qualitative answers to the questions asked and includes the various definitions given by respondents, a critique of them, as well as this author's own comprehensive definition of terrorism
The United Nations' encouragement of aggression and ethnic cleansing: Time to abandon the right to self-determination
This article claims that the UN can be accused of encouraging ‐ rather than merely appeasing‐the ‘aggression’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ that has occurred within the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and elsewhere. This is a conclusion that is based upon the UN's pronouncements on self‐determination which have led to both the creation of both a ‘right’ and/or ‘principle’ of self‐determination in international law and a widespread belief…
Research note: The quantitative results of a questionnaire on state terrorism
This article attempts to explain the reasoning behind, and quantitative answers to, a questionnaire on the topic of terrorism by those in power. The questionnaire was sent out to 247 academics between the period November 1993 and May 1995, with those who did not initially reply to the first being sent a second. All of the recipients of the questionnaire had previously written on the topic of terrorism. In all, 120 academics replied to this author…
Can the state be terrorist
This paper examines the methodological problems involved in identifying and evaluating the extent of state terrorism. It attempts the former by examining the two parts that constitute this conceptual problem (i.e., terrorism and the state) before fusing the two in a comprehensive definition of terrorism that distinguishes between the state's terrorist and nonterrorist use of violence both at home and abroad. It then moves on to an analysis of the…
Can the state be terrorist
This paper examines the methodological problems involved in identifying and evaluating the extent of state terrorism. It attempts the former by examining the two parts that constitute this conceptual problem (i.e., terrorism and the state) before fusing the two in a comprehensive definition of terrorism that distinguishes between the state's terrorist and nonterrorist use of violence both at home and abroad. It then moves on to an analysis of the…
Research note: The quantitative results of a questionnaire on state terrorism
This article attempts to explain the reasoning behind, and quantitative answers to, a questionnaire on the topic of terrorism by those in power. The questionnaire was sent out to 247 academics between the period November 1993 and May 1995, with those who did not initially reply to the first being sent a second. All of the recipients of the questionnaire had previously written on the topic of terrorism. In all, 120 academics replied to this author…
Can the state commit acts of terrorism: An opinion and some qualitative replies to a questionnaire
This article follows on from that entitled The Quantitative Results of a Questionnaire on State Terrorism published in TPV 8/3. Based upon the same 120 replies by academics to a questionnaire on terrorism by those in power, this article reveals many of the qualitative answers to the questions asked and includes the various definitions given by respondents, a critique of them, as well as this author's own comprehensive definition of terrorism
The United Nations' encouragement of aggression and ethnic cleansing: Time to abandon the right to self-determination
This article claims that the UN can be accused of encouraging ‐ rather than merely appeasing‐the ‘aggression’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ that has occurred within the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and elsewhere. This is a conclusion that is based upon the UN's pronouncements on self‐determination which have led to both the creation of both a ‘right’ and/or ‘principle’ of self‐determination in international law and a widespread belief…
Can the state be terrorist
This paper examines the methodological problems involved in identifying and evaluating the extent of state terrorism. It attempts the former by examining the two parts that constitute this conceptual problem (i.e., terrorism and the state) before fusing the two in a comprehensive definition of terrorism that distinguishes between the state's terrorist and nonterrorist use of violence both at home and abroad. It then moves on to an analysis of the…
The United Nations' encouragement of aggression and ethnic cleansing: Time to abandon the right to self-determination
This article claims that the UN can be accused of encouraging ‐ rather than merely appeasing‐the ‘aggression’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ that has occurred within the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and elsewhere. This is a conclusion that is based upon the UN's pronouncements on self‐determination which have led to both the creation of both a ‘right’ and/or ‘principle’ of self‐determination in international law and a widespread belief…
Research note: The quantitative results of a questionnaire on state terrorism
This article attempts to explain the reasoning behind, and quantitative answers to, a questionnaire on the topic of terrorism by those in power. The questionnaire was sent out to 247 academics between the period November 1993 and May 1995, with those who did not initially reply to the first being sent a second. All of the recipients of the questionnaire had previously written on the topic of terrorism. In all, 120 academics replied to this author…
The United Nations and the right to self‐determination: A response to Mahalingam's reply
Can the state commit acts of terrorism: An opinion and some qualitative replies to a questionnaire
This article follows on from that entitled The Quantitative Results of a Questionnaire on State Terrorism published in TPV 8/3. Based upon the same 120 replies by academics to a questionnaire on terrorism by those in power, this article reveals many of the qualitative answers to the questions asked and includes the various definitions given by respondents, a critique of them, as well as this author's own comprehensive definition of terrorism
Researching, writing and teaching genocide: Sources on the internet
The Serious and Organised Crime Agency and the National Crime Squad: A comparison of their output from open source materials
The research note attempts to compare the law enforcement work of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to that of its predecessor, the National Crime Squad, within the context of the extra financial resources given to the former. In so doing it raises interesting questions about the efficiency of the SOCA and the usefulness of official annual reports in the process of accountability
Pursue: Has the National Crime Agency substantially reduced the level of serious and organised crime in the UK
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Terrorism (3 works)