Call me paranoid, but I would need to know more about you you, Debb, are before giving you anything in confidence. Searching the web for your name suggests you might be 'an American Anthropologist living in England." I would guess an anthropologist would be connected to a university, but you use a hotmail email address?

Also, just out of curiosity, I wonder why the focus on post-9/11? Thatcher did a lot to criminalise protest ( http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/changhyun/ThatcherPolicies4.html), and the police acted illegally in their response to the miner's strike on several occasions (e.g. stopping all-male cars travelling north).

Curiously incomplete bit of sluething. But, OK, a bit more detail. I am a social anthropologist active in the anti-war and Palestine solidarity movements. I am asking people to share their thoughts on and experiences of criminalisation of protest and dissent since 9/11 by completing a confidential questionnaire.
I will use the information to write a chapter describing the situation in Britain for a book in a 2 volume series on criminalisation of political movements and dissent around the world. The book's editor is Jeffrey Shantz, a sociologist at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia. Jeff has long been active in the peace and social justice movement in Canada. The idea for this book originated in his observation that criminalisation of political movements and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance.

If you have any other questions (or suspicions), feel free to contact me.

Debb