ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the introduction of the Desistance and Disengagement Programme (DDP) in the Prevent strand of the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST). Little is known about DDP in the public domain and no academic investigation has been conducted to understand how it works and the impact it is having. This chapter therefore attempts to answer the following questions: Why has a counter-terrorism (CT) programme such as DDP been incorporated into a preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) strategy such as Prevent? What does the emergence of DDP in the Prevent strand tell us about how Prevent is evolving?
