@dinesson
Lecturer in law, University of York. Criminal law, criminal process, and evidence; some mental health. Primarily working on terror-law/policy and discretion: 'Criminalizing Terrorism' forthcoming with OUP.
I am particularly glad to see the report cite my work on terrorism prosecutions, collection of information, and mindset evidence. The commission echoes my concerns, as well as some of my proposals for reform 📚
The Commission's report assesses the effectiveness and proportionality of the UK's counter-terrorism framework. It makes a number of important recommendations for reform in an area in dire need of change across law and practice 👇🏼
There is still time to get your abstract in! See details below - and please share with your network 👇🏼
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Interested? Please email a short abstract (300w max) to kajsa.dinesson@york.ac.uk and f.soliman@napier.ac.uk by November 7th. Accepted chapter drafts will be due end of March 2026.
Please share this call with your network! 📣
We are seeking a few additional short chapters (8000w) on:
🚨The local impacts of global counter-terrorism in the global south
🌱Environmental harms/oppression of environmental activism
We particularly invite scholars from the global south and indigenous perspectives to consider contributing.
We have secured a number of excellent contributions already, on topics including the harms of proscription, secrecy and open justice, policing and hybrid measures, family interventions, counter-terrorism at borders and in bordered spaces, the manosphere, data doubles, and more.
We propose that engagement with the social harms of counterterrorism offers an avenue towards nuanced critical scholarship equipped with the tools to critically interrogate state powers and interventions. This volume brings together critical scholars across disciplines to develop on this proposal.
We are compiling an edited collection with Bristol University Press. It builds on our recent paper in Justice, Power and Resistance and its case for zemiology (the study of social harm) offering an avenue for critical work to break free of the limitations of a criminocentric perspective.
📣 Call for contributors 📣
from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'.
Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼
And in related great news: @morrellcentre.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!
Many thanks to @mattmatravers.bsky.social @drfassnidge.bsky.social @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social @awelsh.bsky.social Andrew Cornford and Jane Richards for their contributions, comments, and intellectual generosity.
Now all that's left is to finish writing!
Notebook with title 'Criminalizing Terror' and a hot drink
Yesterday I had the privilege of having some brilliant colleagues join me for a manuscript workshop on the draft chapters for my forthcoming book: Criminalizing Terrorism. I am very grateful to the Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy for funding this fantastic full day workshop!
Thank you Jessie!
The project - entitled "In the eyes of the jury: mock jury deliberations and lind-set material in terrorism cases" - does what it says on the tin really. This will be a fantastic opportunity to generate further insight into the impact of mind-set material in terrorism cases.
I am so pleased to share that as of March 2026 I will be PI on a 2 year British Academy/Leverhulme funded project on mind-set material 🔎🧠
A woman standing in front of a screen showing a presentation titled "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism".
Another excellent @europeangroup.bsky.social conference this year in Malmö: programme packed with critical and radical voices and clear commitment in support of Palestine. Grateful for the kind and attentive audience listening to my and @dinesson.bsky.social's paper on zemiology of counterterrorism
Do you have some interesting musings going on related to criminal law? We'd love to hear about it! Deadline 10 Oct - plenty of time to get thinking and writing👀
This is the relevant section of the report.
For those who are interested and can't wait until the monograph, you can read some discussion of the issues in my recent piece in Legal Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Report on the Terrorism Acts (operation in 2023) is now published.
It continues important discussions about terrorism and the internet. Glad to see discussion of young people online, and flattered to be cited on this issue! For those interested, the work cited is forthcoming with OUP 👀
And of course, great to see that "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism" by @dinesson.bsky.social and myself is settled in its new home: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Congratulations! 🎉
My talented colleague Dr Alice Welsh has published a brilliant book on work and free movement rights. Open access link below!
Amazing! Congratulations and fantastic work👏🏼
York Law School is advertising an open funded full-time on-campus PhD position,with stipend + fee waiver at the home rate.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an internationally renowned university and a vibrant law school, supervised by our fantastic academic staff.
Closing date May 31st.
A great hybrid session of the Virtual Criminal Law Group with @mattmatravers.bsky.social in Edinburgh, speaking about public nuisance offences and their rationales. Lovely to see friends and to have such a great discussion!
Dr Kajsa Dinesson @dinesson.bsky.social has supported Liberty in submitting evidence to the Public Bill Committee on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. The Bill proposes introducing offences aimed at organised immigration crime.
#Asylum #Immigration #YLS #UoY #Law #UKLaw #Research
Cheers Eppie - may also be of interest to @drmagdafurgalska.bsky.social
@frasoliman.bsky.social and I are among BUPs most downloaded authors of 2024!
You can read our paper "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism" and the whole collection free until Feb 28th!
Most downloaded collection: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/page/most-re...
A picture of the first page of the linked article in print
Prosecutions, evidence, and mind-set material in terrorism cases 📄
Fresh off the presses and delivered this week to enjoy in print form. For anyone who does not receive Legal Studies in the mail however, fear not! The paper is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...