ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to examine the introduction of the Desistance and Disengagement Programme (DDP) in the Prevent strand of the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy. It argues that it is more intelligible to understand the incorporation of DDP into Prevent through the conceptual framework of the Public Health Model (PHM). The chapter explains what is known about DDP in the literature and identifies the pre-existing limitations of trying to analyse DDP through the existing literature on Prevent. It introduces the PHM and how the literature has treated the role of public health approaches in relation to preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). The PHM is appealing for some academics and practitioners working in P/CVE because it offers a coherent, structured and multi-pronged approach to identifying and responding to different types of risk among populations. The PHM not only represents the Prevent delivery model more accurately but also reflects the evolution of the Prevent strategy.
