Prevent-era Channel referrals of children rose sharply and heavily targeted Muslims

Evidence

Statistics published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council6 show a significant increase in referrals between 2014/15 and 2015/16 (the latter including nine months when the Prevent duty was in force); there was an increase of nearly 90% in the total number of Channel referrals, including an increase of 250% in referrals of children under 10 and an increase of 114% in referrals of young people under 18, between these two years. This data also discloses consistently high proportions of Muslims being referred (or referrals based on a risk of ‘Islamist extremism’, which we submit is a reliable proxy for ‘Muslim’), in both years (see Table 7.1). — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 417

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘reliable proxy’ claim — equating risk of ‘Islamist extremism’ with ‘Muslim’ — is itself definitionally loaded; worth tracking how the report constructs this equivalence across chapters.
• XREF: connects to: Most Prevent ‘suspicious’ referrals are lawfully behaving Muslim children who are traumatized. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 418; Muslim children were 44 times more likely than others to be referred to Channel — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 418; Racialized surveillance gets internalized by Muslim American children as self-discipline — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546 (+4 more)

Related

• Most Prevent ‘suspicious’ referrals are lawfully behaving Muslim children who are traumatized. (similarity 0.91)
• Muslim children were 44 times more likely than others to be referred to Channel (similarity 0.89)
• Gross over-referral of Muslims reflects Islamophobic prejudice, not true risk (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Gross over-referral of Muslims reflects Islamophobic prejudice, not true risk #corroborates (0.90) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 419
• Prevent’s stated all-threats remit masks a clear targeting of Muslims #corroborates (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 398
• Racialized surveillance gets internalized by Muslim American children as self-discipline #expands (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546
• Perceived surveillance pressure drives Muslims to preemptively perform anti-terror condemnation #expands (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 623
• Everyday harassment from strangers makes Muslim American children internalize illegitimacy #expands (0.72)