?This Brief takes a provocative look at existing socio-legal literature with a comparative
study of terrorism control orders focusing on how the concept of pre-emption fits within a
traditional criminological framework. This timely work examines how such measures might be
conceived and interpreted within a situational crime prevention approach. Over the past decade
socio-legal scholars have identified a rise in pre-emptive control mechanisms to respond to
terrorism and other threats in the post-9 11 world. Many have argued that this pre-emptive
rationale has been used to justify the introduction of measures that transcend established
legal and risk frameworks to deal with individuals or groups thought to pose a threat to the
state or its citizens. ?Preventing Terrorism and Controlling Risk: A Comparative Analysis of
Control Orders in the UK and Australia will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and
Criminal Justice particularly with a focus on terrorism risk assessment and human rights.?
