Criminal law, counterterrorism, terrorist use of the internet. Director @CYTREC_. Prof @Swansea_Law. Coordinator @VOX_Pol. Senior Fellow @Hedayah_CVE.

Joined November 2012
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Third edition of my Text, Cases and Materials on Criminal Law is now available! pearson.com/store/p/criminal…
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🚨 Event Alert – 8 September 2025, 16:30 (London/Dublin time) 📣 VOX-Pol Institute presents: Chatbots and Extremism: Risks, Policies, and Opportunities
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Join us for this insightful closed webinar that explores: •How extremist actors might/do exploit chatbots •The role of platform policies and safety tools in combating abuse •The potential for chatbots to support countering and preventing violent extremism
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Short expert talks will be followed by a live Q&A and discussion. Open only to the tech sector, email info@voxpolinstitute.org to attend
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🚨 Now Published: The Extremism Risk Guidance – Revised (ERG-R). After over a decade of guiding terrorism risk assessments in England and Wales, the ERG22 framework has been comprehensively updated by the HMPPS CT-ARC. Read the full technical report: doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.70…
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📢 Meet @CTProject_SM, Associate Fellow for the #RoL Team! ⚖️ Professor of Law @SwanseaUni, his work focuses on violent #jihadist narratives, #cyberterrorism & the need for a rule of law approach in #counterterrorism online. ➡️ buff.ly/E1O7nT9
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Dr Lella Nouri, Associate Professor of Criminology at Swansea University and Co-Director of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC), has pioneered the StreetSnap app to enable councils, local police and their partners to better record, utilise and remove hateful graffiti, and the Flip the Streets initiative involving community members in co-producing artwork to replace instances of hateful visuals, as she explained to Policing Insight’s Andrew Staniforth. [SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE] policinginsight.com/feature/… @CTProject_Lella @CYTREC_ @SwanseaUni
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Prof Stuart MacDonald’s and my joint article on OFCOM terrorism and the meaning of public communication has been published in the Law Quarterly Review 2025, 141 (April), 271-292…/1
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The UK is facing a "smouldering" terror threat level with children as young as 10 accessing extreme online material, one of the country's most senior counter-terrorism officers has warned. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjz…
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Against a backdrop of an increasingly younger terrorist cohort within His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, my latest paper explores the relationship between age and various Extremism Risk Guidance assessment outcomes. emerald.com/insight/content/…

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Latest report now published: Terrorism Acts in 2022
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It's Beginning to Feel Real 💃 My Book is COMING SOON Based on My 4 Years Undercover Online Researching #Racism #Extremism #Propaganda #Technology Huge THANK YOU to the AMAZING @AndrewPSilke @ProfJohnHorgan @CTProject_SM @surajlakhani @anitalavorgna for their Endorsements 😍😍😍
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23 Sep 2024
You’re invited to an open source intelligence #OSINT workshop, being held online at 3pm UK time this Wednesday, 25 Sept. The workshop will cover: •Basic OSINT techniques •Researcher’s safety •Data integrity For more info and to register: swanseauniversity.zoom.us/we…
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My @VOX_Pol blog on the @EUCouncil designation of the Base is now out! I examine how this designation will likely impact the dissemination of The Base’s online content, given the sanction regime and the Terrorist Content Online Regulation (TCO) regulation. voxpol.eu/breaking-ground-th…
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Delighted to see my new article on the Independent Review of the UK Prevent Strategy now out in @JD_JournalDerad! Co-authored with @CTProject_SM & @AndyWhiting25, you can read it for free here: journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php… Many thanks to the editors and anonymous reviewers!
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20 Jun 2024
So glad to have attended #TASMconf in Swansea over the past couple days. Diolch yn fawr iawn @CYTREC_ @CTProject_SM for the warm welcome!
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