ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the pre-emptive policies have also been favoured in terms of the internal management of national security. It examines some of the impacts and effects of domestic counter-terrorism policies, specifically those based on the logic of anticipatory risk. Following on from the judgement by the European Court in 2010, a Counter-Terrorism Review commissioned by the Home Office reported that Section 44 should be repealed and in 2011 the British government announced that stop and search powers would be reviewed. The chapter focuses on the way in which a climate of suspicion generated about and around Muslims coupled to the implementation of exceptional pre-emptive policies invokes acts of self-surveillance on behalf of those rendered risky to deflect stigma and reduce the probability of victimization. It also presents the turn to pre-emption not only has ramifications for counter-terrorism practices. National counter-terrorism legislation, coercive foreign policy and military incursions are all ideationally underpinned by pre-imagined harms of the future.
