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Why there is a need for more research on the adjudication of Belgian terrorist offenders : pre-emptive punishment in Belgian terrorism-related cases

Stéphanie De Coensel (UGent)
(2023) Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism, 2nd, Abstracts.
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A proliferation of criminal justice measures in the context of counter-terrorism has led to an increasing expansion of criminal liability. As a result, ancillary acts have been brought within the remit of criminal law, based upon their potential harm and related security and risk management aims. This legislative evolution has been widely criticised, but empirical research on the implications in practice has been largely inexistent in Belgium. Little is known on (1) how these criminal law provisions have been actually applied in sentencing decisions, and (2) how the changing terrorist threat has shaped these sentencing decisions. On the one hand, this research poster highlights the need to gain insight in the interaction between the criminal justice system and terrorist offenders, and influences thereupon by changes in legal and/or political context.  On the other hand, the research poster presents the research design of a postdoctoral research project on the adjudication of terrorism-related offenders in Belgium since the introduction of terrorism-specific legislation in 2003, in terms of judicial interpretation, patterns and evolutions, and sentence severity. A systematic content analysis of over 350 court rulings of terrorism-related trials will be systematically coded and analysed in a qualitative and quantitative manner, on the level of case and offender metadata, sentencing process and outcome variables and terrorism-specific variables. An analysis of the adjudication of Belgian terrorism-related offenders of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, and the evolutions therein, provides crucial insights in the response of the criminal justice system for scholars, practitioners and society in general.

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De Coensel, Stéphanie. “Why There Is a Need for More Research on the Adjudication of Belgian Terrorist Offenders : Pre-Emptive Punishment in Belgian Terrorism-Related Cases.” Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism, 2nd, Abstracts, 2023.
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De Coensel, S. (2023). Why there is a need for more research on the adjudication of Belgian terrorist offenders : pre-emptive punishment in Belgian terrorism-related cases. Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism, 2nd, Abstracts. Presented at the Second Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism.
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De Coensel, Stéphanie. 2023. “Why There Is a Need for More Research on the Adjudication of Belgian Terrorist Offenders : Pre-Emptive Punishment in Belgian Terrorism-Related Cases.” In Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism, 2nd, Abstracts.
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De Coensel, Stéphanie. 2023. “Why There Is a Need for More Research on the Adjudication of Belgian Terrorist Offenders : Pre-Emptive Punishment in Belgian Terrorism-Related Cases.” In Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism, 2nd, Abstracts.
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De Coensel S. Why there is a need for more research on the adjudication of Belgian terrorist offenders : pre-emptive punishment in Belgian terrorism-related cases. In: Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism, 2nd, Abstracts. 2023.
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S. De Coensel, “Why there is a need for more research on the adjudication of Belgian terrorist offenders : pre-emptive punishment in Belgian terrorism-related cases,” in Annual Colloquium of the European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism, 2nd, Abstracts, 2023.
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