ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the way in which the UK manages those convicted under terrorism-related offences on licence. It describes the primary channel through which the risk of a terrorism offender on licence is assessed: multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPAs). The chapter examines the licence conditions which MAPPAs seek to impose upon an offender in order to manage the risk they present. It aims to ascertain whether MAPPAs are an appropriate and fit-for-purpose risk management tool. The chapter identifies five issues in the use of MAPPAs which range from the difficulties of heavy resource consumption in a bleak financial climate, to operational problems in service culture mentality and the sharing of secret intelligence between responsible agencies. It focuses exclusively on the potential threat posed by terrorism-related offenders on lesser, often non-violent, charges after their release. The chapter discusses the risk that manage non-terrorist offenders radicalised in prison were beginning to be rolled out in a number of pilot studies.
