suspected terrorist group by French police can be seen as evidence of the benefits and necessity of good intelligence. 77 The success of the criminal justice model is not just limited to statistical evidence. A theoretical assumption suggests that the model’s use works to delegitimise the terrorist act. Crelinsten argues that by treating a terrorist attack as a criminal act, it acts to strip the events of their supposed political or ideological narratives, and treat them solely as the act of a criminal. 78 This can be argued to help limit the ‘terror’ effect on the population, as well as avoiding the overemphasis of the threat that the group or individual poses. Moreover, a criminal justice model can be said to help establish or reinforce societal views and beliefs regarding terrorism as a criminal offence. By treating terrorism as a crime, Crelinsten argues that it can help to transmit an understanding that terrorism is socially and legally unacceptable. 79 Additionally, it allows states to implement a form of rehabilitation to convicted terrorists in attempts to instil them with compliance to these norms. This can be seen as part of an attempt to recondition targeted individuals, as well as society as a whole, to the criminal nature of terrorist activity. In this sense, policing approaches can be seen to attempt to deal with terrorism through an acknowledgement of the long-term nature of the phenomenon. In all, criminal justice models of counterterrorism can be said to provide an 77 Lucy Pasha-Robinson, Isis: Terror plot targeting ‘French theme park and police officers’ foiled (Independent, 2016), <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/isis-terror- attack-plots-foiled-theme-park-police-targets-cell-arrested- strasbourg-marseille-a7433816.html> [accessed 30 November 2016]. 78 Crelinsten, Counterterrorism, p . 52 79 Ibid., pp. 56-57
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