Publicação
Contra-Terrorismo
| Resumo: | Due to our daily contact with terrorism, consequence of our professional duties in CT activity, as a criminal investigator, we have identified two circumstances that promote the incorrect analysis of the phenomenon in terms of public discourse: on the one hand, the poor comprehension of basic concepts and ideas regarding terrorism, rooted in sophism and prejudice, conveyed by opinion-makers, some with institutional responsibility; on the other hand, the misrepresentation of (some) legal foundations of the Internal Security and Justice systems, sometimes with law coverage, that only achieve to destabilize the CT response. In this context, and taking advantage of the academic opportunity, we decided to approach some issues that we think are essential in order to clarify this matter. Thus, under a dogmatic construction (qualitative dimension) in which we reason about the concept of terrorism, its preventive investigation, or the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism, among others, we have built a study in which we thrived to ascertain an approximated answer to the following question: which is the “ideal” model of a CT unit? To this effect, we have obtained the opinions of national and international CT experts, arising from their concrete experience, through questionnaires (quantitative dimension), still addressing relevant notions, as police and the articulation of those two above mentioned state systems. In doing so, confronting a proposal of an “ideal” CT unit with the obtained answers, starting with the Portuguese reality, but with projection capability to the realm of the “what should be”, we succeeded in presenting a set of characteristics and features that should be present in such unit. Fulfilling the methodologic demands, we believe that new knowledge was achieved, aiming to decision-making that improve the CT praxis, as intended by the applied and practice-oriented investigation. |
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| Autores principais: | Cortez, Frederico |
| Assunto: | Terrorismo Contra-terrorismo Unidade CT “ideal” Investigação preventiva Polícia de investigação criminal Segurança Interna Justiça Terrorism Counter-Terrorism “Ideal” CT unit Preventive Investigation Criminal investigation police Internal Security Justice |
| Ano: | 2018 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | Due to our daily contact with terrorism, consequence of our professional duties in CT activity, as a criminal investigator, we have identified two circumstances that promote the incorrect analysis of the phenomenon in terms of public discourse: on the one hand, the poor comprehension of basic concepts and ideas regarding terrorism, rooted in sophism and prejudice, conveyed by opinion-makers, some with institutional responsibility; on the other hand, the misrepresentation of (some) legal foundations of the Internal Security and Justice systems, sometimes with law coverage, that only achieve to destabilize the CT response. In this context, and taking advantage of the academic opportunity, we decided to approach some issues that we think are essential in order to clarify this matter. Thus, under a dogmatic construction (qualitative dimension) in which we reason about the concept of terrorism, its preventive investigation, or the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism, among others, we have built a study in which we thrived to ascertain an approximated answer to the following question: which is the “ideal” model of a CT unit? To this effect, we have obtained the opinions of national and international CT experts, arising from their concrete experience, through questionnaires (quantitative dimension), still addressing relevant notions, as police and the articulation of those two above mentioned state systems. In doing so, confronting a proposal of an “ideal” CT unit with the obtained answers, starting with the Portuguese reality, but with projection capability to the realm of the “what should be”, we succeeded in presenting a set of characteristics and features that should be present in such unit. Fulfilling the methodologic demands, we believe that new knowledge was achieved, aiming to decision-making that improve the CT praxis, as intended by the applied and practice-oriented investigation. |
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