US Legal Perspectives

Autor: Jeffrey H. Smith, Amy Jeffress, Christopher E. Beeler, Tian Tian Xin
Rok vydání: 2022
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780190929794.003.0018
Popis: In the post-9/11 world, violence perpetrated by lone individuals is increasingly being recognized as acts of terrorism by US policymakers, law enforcement authorities, and intelligence agencies. While federal and state prosecutors have been successful in prosecuting lone-actor terrorists in court, the surveillance programs intended to identify lone actors before they act have been fraught with challenges and friction points concerning privacy, free speech, and other constitutional implications. This chapter examines the laws applicable to lone-actor terrorists, the state and federal prosecutions that have occurred, and how the surveillance of social media and electronic communications in terrorism investigations has created a morass of civil liberties concerns that courts and policymakers alike have struggled to resolve. Although modern democracies all must grapple with the tension between security and freedom, the escalation of lone-actor terrorist attacks has created knotty challenges for all three branches of the US government and raised the stakes for getting it right.
Databáze: OpenAIRE