ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the United Kingdom's experience with Prevent. It explains Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner's approach to preventive justice and identifies a number of their key principles. The chapter considers whether it is appropriate to apply a preventive justice approach to countering violent extremism (CVE) programs and also considers which principles might be relevant to those programs. The chapter addresses two important questions: whether it is appropriate to apply a preventive justice framework to CVE programs, and the extent to which preventive justice principles are relevant to those programs. It presents approaches to preventive justice in counter-terrorism should be expanded to account for the use and operation of non-coercive preventive measures. The chapter considers prominent rule of law values discussed by Ashworth and Zedner, as these are significant to any discussion of preventive measures in a modern democratic state. Finally, it considers the relevance of procedural safeguards.
