Preventive Detention of Terror Suspects - A New Legal Framework

This book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the preventive detention of terror suspects under domestic criminal law, the law of armed conflict and international human rights law. The book looks comparatively at the law in a number of key jurisdictions including the USA, the UK, Israel, France, India, Australia and Canada before comparing this to preventive detention under the law of armed conflict and various human treaties. The book demonstrates that the procedures governing the use of preventive detention are deficient in each framework, and instead puts forward a new approach to preventive detention which respects both human rights and maintains security.