Devolution and the Prevent Strategy in Scotland
Constitutional Politics and the Path of Scottish P/CVE
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6312975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Heath-Kelly (0000-0002-5237-4691, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick , Coventry, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 350-370 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pa/gsad007 |
| OpenAlex | W4328052509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper explores the implementation of the ‘Prevent Duty’ in Scotland. Using archival research into Parliamentary debates, as well as research interviews with Scottish government representatives and healthcare professionals, the paper sheds light on the constitutional politics surrounding the Counterterrorism and Security Act 2015 which resulted in the markedly different applications of Prevent between England and Scotland. The divergence of the policy between the nations, and the constitutional anomalies which facilitated a specifically Scottish Prevent program, have remained unaddressed in the academic literature—partly because of a mistaken assumption by researchers that the Prevent Strategy equally applies to all nations (given that Westminster legislates for the UK on matters of defence and security). To fill this gap in knowledge, this paper explores how the Scottish government was able to leverage the devolution settlement and associated constitutional conventions to implement a modest P/CVE program—dropping some components of the English and Welsh Prevent programs entirely. The paper contributes to studies on British constitutional conventions and the nature of inter-governmental politics in the UK by highlighting the surprising freedom to manoeuvre Scotland can enjoy, with regards to reserved policy areas
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Increasing Cognitive Complexity and Collaboration Across Communities
Measuring radicalisation
The enactment of the counter-terrorism “Prevent duty” in British schools and colleges
The banality of counterterrorism “after, after 9/11”? Perspectives on the Prevent duty from the UK health care sector
Scottish criminal justice
Failed and Friendless
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism
Assembling and deconstructing radicalisation in PREVENT
Criminal justice in post-devolutionary Scotland
A Tale as Old as (Devolved) Time? Sewel, Stormont and the Legislative Consent Convention
Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual
Policing Violent Extremism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |