The Impacts of Terrorism on the Prison Service

Focus Group: HMP Frankland

Location: HMP Frankland Training CentreResearcher: Jonathan Jackson (MSC, BSC)

Contents

Introduction

Part One: What Is Your Knowledge on Terrorism?

Part Two: What does Terrorism mean for you as a member of the Prison Service?

Part Three: What do you think Counter-Terrorism is?

Part Four: Feedback

Introduction•Who I am

•Why I am here with you today?

•The Topic is Upsetting?

Part One

What is your Knowledge of Terrorism?

•The Researcher will now show you several images which are associated with the topic of Terrorism. They are images designed to test your knowledge and ability to identify what is going on in the image. This part of the focus group asks that you write down on a piece of paper, who or what you think the image is ?

•Any Questions?

Part One: What is your knowledge of Terrorism?

Who do you think this man is?

Part One: What is your knowledge of Terrorism?

What was the date of this Terrorist attack and what city did it occur in?

Part One: What is your knowledge of Terrorism?

What was the date of this Terrorist attack and what city did it occur it?

Part One: What is your knowledge of Terrorism?

Are these men Terrorists?

Part One: What is your knowledge of Terrorism?

Who is this man?

Part One: What is your knowledge of Terrorism?

Which Organisation do you think this man belongs to?

Part One: What is your knowledge of Terrorism?

Do you think these men are Terrorists?

Part Two

What does Terrorism mean for you as a member of the Prison Service?

What does Terrorism mean for you as a member of the Prison Service?

•This part of the focus group will be a open discussion forum of questions about Terrorism and what as a focus group you think about these questions.

•The opinions that the participants give will be recoded by Dictaphone and the researcher will make additional written notes.

•Any Questions?

Part Two: What does Terrorism mean for you as a Student?

1. Do you think that Terrorism poses a risk to the United Kingdom?

2.Who can carry out Terrorism?

Part Two: What does Terrorism mean for you as a Student?

6.Do you think that the torture of Terrorist suspects in order to gain information is the right?

7.Where do you learn most of your information about the subject of Terrorism?

Part Three

What do you think Counter-Terrorism is?

Part Three: What do you think Counter-Terrorism is?

•In Part 3 of the focus group, the participants will be asked about what they know about Counter-Terrorism in the UK. This will follow the same pattern as the previous two parts.

•This will be an open forum in which the participants will be asked on their general opinions on Terrorism.

•Any Questions

Part Three: What do you think Counter-Terrorism is?

1. What role do you see the Prison Service having in Counter-Terrorism?

2. Do the Practical problems of managing the Prison environment make it difficult to tackle the extremist

threat within it?

3. Atwan (2008) argues that Prisons have replaced Al-Qaida training camps as the biggest source of

recruitment of Extremist Terrorism. What are your thoughts on this?

Part Three: What do you think Counter-Terrorism is?

3. Is Counter-Terrorism more than Weapons, Security and Surveillance?

Part Four: Feedback

Thank you very much for taking part in this focus group and your time is very much appreciated by the Researcher.

Please now fill in the feedback forms.

Any Questions?