ABSTRACT
This chapter considers three elements integral to the process of seeing and saying: creating the suspected, targeting the suspected and making sense of the suspected. It also presents the challenges posed by the responses for the suspected themselves and by implication for the societies that have gone down this route in seeking security. In most European countries, the last decade or so has seen the extension of legislative powers designed to deal with the threat of terrorism. The lone wolf approach, as label implies, focuses attention on the inherent characteristics associated with individual terrorists. In this approach, the cause of terrorism lies within individual personality constructs or disorders. A variation of strain theory as derived from the work of Merton, the subcultural approach focuses attention on the extent to which shared values and understandings promote particularly criminal behaviours. Whereas Whyte reminds that a state of exception is ultimately not a project of legal power, but a project of power.
