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Tackling Inappropriate Use of Islamic Literature by Extremists in Prison

Reviewed by: Roderic Vassie

• ABSTRACT
• This article proposes a new approach to “tackling the availability and source of extremist literature,” one of the recommendations published in the Acheson Review in August 2016. Apart from the contents of sections 6.13 and 7.13 of the Prison public protection policy framework (PPPPF), much of the implementation policy, guidance and assessments relating to banned materials are classified as “official”/“sensitive” and are therefore not discussed here. Instead, the article proposes a fresh approach that combines specialist Islamic librarianship and scholarship with experience in working in a high-security prison, as a chaplain, while remaining, at the same time, focused on safety and security.
• Keywords: Islamic Literature for prisoners - Counter-extremism - Muslim prisoners - Muslim chaplains working in prisons

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