Library Resources for Criminology/Policing & Justice: Terrorism

ComLaw has the most complete and up-to-date collection of Commonwealth legislation. Free access.

The Law Today section contains authorised versions of Victorian legislation. Free access.

Published by Council of Australian Governments (COAG), 2013.

Hosted by the Federal Attorney-Genera's Department.

Published by the Department of Justice Victoria 2013/14. The Department of Justice on behalf of the Attorney-General has commenced its review of counter-terrorism legislation in Victoria. The review will evaluate the operation, effectiveness and implications of Victoria’s terrorism legislation.

Victorian review of Counter-terrorism Legislation report and Victorian Government response
The Victorian review of Counter-Terrorism Legislation Report and the Victorian Government response was tabled in Parliament on 16 September 2014.

Produced by the Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission.

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, United Nations.

Crenshaw, M 2006, 'Have Motivations for Terrorism Changed?' in Jeff Victoroff (ed), NATO Security through Science Series, Human and Societal Dynamics, Vol. 11, IOS Press, Amsterdam, viewed 03 July 2015.

Spencer, A 2006, 'Questioning the concept of ‘new terrorism’, Peace Conflict & Development, no. 8, pp.1-33.

A series of articles published by The Conversation.

This site contains many articles on terrorism laws, counter-terrorism, the detention of suspects and human rights.

Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC) - Hot Topics via AustLII.

The Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM) is independent of Government. The role of the INSLM is to review the operation, effectiveness and implications of Australia’s counter terrorism and national security legislation on an ongoing basis.

Hosted by the Australian Government.

ICT’s Research and Publications include short analyses and in-depth publications on a wide variety of topics including: terrorism, counter-terrorism, homeland security, radicalization process, cyber-terrorism, reviews from Jihadi Websites and insights from our database. This organisation is based in Israel.

UNODC, New York, 2011.

Published by the Department of the Parliamentary Library.

Cronin, AK 2003, 'Behind the curve: globalization and international terrorism', International Security, vol. 27, no.3 pp. 30-58.

Moffatt, S 2007, 'Globalisation, terrorism and cosmopolitan Australia', Security Challenges, vol.3, no.1, pp.1-8.

Contains full-text reports reviewing terrorism in Great Britain. Includes reviews of the Terrorism Acts 2012.

UK Government.

A US based website containing substantial full text reports on counter-terrorism and terrorist groups.

This is one of six parts. Once you open this link, the other parts are available on the right hand side of the screen.

Jennings, P (ed) 2015, Gen Y jihadists: preventing radicalisation in Australia, ASPI, Barton ACT

Precht, T 2007, Home grown terrorism and Islamist radi-calisation in Europe: from conversion to terrorism, Danish Ministry of Justice, Copenhagen

Bakker, E 2006, Jihadi terrorists in Europe: their characteristics and the circumstances in which they joined the jihad: an exploratory study, Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations, VH Den Haag

Published by Monash University. This site contains papers addressing the issue of radicalisation. Many papers are available in full text.

A series of articles published be The Conversation, 2015.

A Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement
by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1999.

Bryman, D & Shapiro, J 2014, 'Be afraid. Be a little afraid: the threat of terrorism from Western foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq', Brookings Policy paper no.34, pp.1-30.

Paper presented at the Criminal Lawyers of the Northern Territory 10th Biennial Conference, Sanur Beach, Bali, 2-8 July 2005.

Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Originally published in the Proceedings of the 3rd
Australian Counter Terrorism Conference, Novotel Langley Hotel, Perth, Western Australia, 3rd-5th December, 2012

The Economist, 31/05/16

UNODC, together with the Governments of Canada, Norway, Qatar and Switzerland organized a special event on the challenges faced by a number of countries regarding the recruitment of children by terrorist groups, and to their treatment by the justice system.