Proscription
Definition
The legal act of a government formally listing an organisation as terrorist, which then makes membership, support or fundraising for that organisation a criminal offence.
Related terms
- Crime-Terror Nexus
- The observed overlap between organised crime and politically motivated violence, where groups on either side borrow financing methods, smuggling routes and personnel...
- Deradicalisation
- A programme aimed at changing a person's extremist beliefs, distinct from disengagement, which targets a person's violent behaviour without necessarily changing what...
- Insurgency
- An organised armed movement that seeks to seize, hold or contest control of territory and population from an existing government, often running...
- State Crime
- Harm caused, ordered or knowingly tolerated by government officials acting in their official capacity, breaching domestic law or established human rights norms.
- Terrorism
- The deliberate use or threat of violence against non-combatants by a clandestine actor to spread fear and influence an audience wider than...