Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions

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Wadie E. Said (Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC) Wadi Said

Crimes of Terror

The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions

Wadie E. Said (Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC), Wadi Said, Associate Professor of Law Wadie E Said (University of South Carolina School of Law)

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Oxford University Press Inc
08 June 2015

Crime & criminology; Central government policies; Terrorism, armed struggle; Terrorism law

"The U.S. government's power to categorize individuals as terrorist suspects and therefore ineligible for certain long-standing constitutional protections has expanded exponentially since 9/11, all the while remaining resistant to oversight. Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions provides a comprehensive and uniquely up-to-date dissection of the government's advantages over suspects in criminal prosecutions of terrorism, which are driven by a preventive mindset that purports to stop plots before they can come to fruition. It establishes the background for these controversial policies and practices and then demonstrates how they have impeded the normal goals of criminal prosecution, even in light of a competing military tribunal model. Proceeding in a linear manner from the investigatory stage of a prosecution on through to sentencing, the book documents the emergence of a ""terrorist exceptionalism"" to normal rules of criminal law and procedure and questions whether the government has overstated the threat posed by the individuals it charges with these crimes. Included is a discussion of the large-scale spying and use of informants rooted in the questionable ""radicalization"" theory; the material support statute--the government's chief legal tool in bringing criminal prosecutions; the new rules regarding generation of evidence and the broad construction of that evidence as relevant at trial; and a look at the special sentencing and confinement regimes for those convicted of terrorist crimes. In this critical examination of terrorism prosecutions in federal court, Professor Said reveals a phenomenon at odds with basic constitutional protections for criminal defendants."

By: Wadie E. Said (Associate Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law University of South Carolina School of Law Columbia SC), Wadi Said, Associate Professor of Law Wadie E Said (University of South Carolina School of Law)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9780199969494
ISBN 10: 0199969493
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 08 June 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Introduction Chapter 1--Informants, Spies, Radicalization, and Entrapment Chapter 2-- Material Support Chapter 3--Evidence and the Criminal Terrorist Prosecution Chapter 4--The Implications and Broad Horizons of the Terrorism Prosecution Chapter 5--Sentencing and Confinement - Even When Imprisoned, the Terrorist is Exceptional Conclusion Index

Wadie E. Said is Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and human rights law. His scholarship has appeared in the Ohio State Law Journal, Brigham Young University Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the Washington Law Review, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Before joining the South Carolina faculty, he represented terrorist suspects as an assistant federal public defender in Tampa, Florida, serving as counsel in United States v. al-Arian, one of the largest terrorism prosecutions in American history. A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, he clerked for Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Reviews for Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions

These and other cases dissected in Crimes of Terror will be familiar to readers with a critical background in law and national security, who will find the book a helpful reference guide, with crucial citations to relevant authorities on the matter, including some of Said's academic work on the topic. For everyone else - the vast majority of readers who will come across this work - Said's is a vital contribution to an underappreciated area of law, accessibly crafted for an audience who will experience firsthand that nothing is immune from the nebulous, manipulative concept of terrorism - especially not the U.S. criminal justice system. * Tarek Z. Ismail, Journal of Palestine Studies *