TY - JOUR A1 - Jadhav, SS A1 - Younis, T A1 - Goldberg, D N2 - Prevent is a UK-wide programme within the government's anti-terrorism strategy aimed at stopping individuals from supporting or taking part in terrorist activities. NHS England's Prevent Training and Competencies Framework requires health professionals to understand the concept of pre-criminal space. This article examines pre-criminal space, a new term which refers to a period of time during which a person is referred to a specific Prevent-related safeguarding panel, Channel. It is unclear what the concept of pre-criminal space adds to the Prevent programme. The term should be either clarified or removed from the Framework. AV - public IS - 5 TI - What is pre-criminal space? N1 - Copyright © 2016 The Authors. This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ID - discovery1522229 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.116.054585 Y1 - 2017/10// JF - BJPsych Bulletin VL - 41 ER -