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In God’s Name: Violent Extremism in North East Nigeria
The expansion of the extremist violent acts of terror in the last two decades and their apparent entanglement with religion has generated an intense...
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Police Responses to Islamist Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
Across a turgid and often bitterly contested policy landscape police officers are expected to implement highly interventionist counter-terrorism...
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Mobilising Extremism in Times of Change: Analysing the UK’s Far-Right Online Content During the Pandemic
The growing dissension towards the political handling of COVID-19, widespread job losses, backlash to extended lockdowns, and hesitancy surrounding...
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The Evolution of the Terrorism and Extremism Landscape in the Age of COVID-19
The chapter examines how transnational terrorism has evolved since the twentieth century, focusing on the so-called religiously inspired wave that...
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Understanding Extremism: Frames of Analysis of the Far Right
In the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombingOklahoma City bombing, North American academics took a renewed interest in researching right-wing...
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Blurring the Boundaries of Mainstream and Extreme: Contexts and Contours of Right-Wing Extremism in Canada
This chapter provides an introduction to the landscape of right-wing extremismRight-wing extremism, definition in Canada. It opens with an...
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Beyond Black and White: the Intersection of Ideologies in Online Extremist Communities
Current literature on online criminal and deviant groups recognises the role of online forums in the transfer of knowledge and socialisation of...
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Risk Assessment—the Key to More Security? Factors, Tools, and Practices in Dealing with Extremist Individuals
In recent years, risk assessments for violent extremism have attracted great interest from both scholars and practitioners, and many assessment tools...
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A Biographical Perspective on Processes of Radicalisation
This article reconstructs four ideal types of biographical self-descriptions outlining radicalisation processes that are based on longitudinal...
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Deconstructing Dominant Radicalization Discourse
This chapter provides insight into dominant counter-radicalization and violent extremism discourses, policies, and practices. As one of the most...
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Islamist Extremism in Kosovo and the Countries of the Region
This brief analyzes the social, historical and societal circumstances influencing the emergence of Islamist extremism in Kosovo and countries of the...
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Cumulative Extremism and the Online Space: Reciprocal Radicalisation Effects Between the Extreme Right and Radical Islamists in the UK
Originally coined in 2006 by prominent far right scholar, Roger Eatwell, cumulative extremism (or ‘the way in which one form of extremism can feed...
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Resilience against Political and Religious Extremism, Radicalization, and Related Violence: A Systematic Review of Studies on Protective Factors
Politically, islamist, or otherwise motivated extremism, radicalization, and violence are highly topical issues in many countries. Thousands of...
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The Factors on Which Islamist Extremism in Kosovo Has Been Based
During the 1990s, in Kosovo and in Albania, a situation prevailed that was characterized by political tensions, with deep economic crises and failure...
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Radicalisation as a Social Phenomenon
This chapter argues that there is a considerable degree of emphasis placed on the role of ideology as a pull factor in radicalisation. However, the...
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Criminal Justice Responses to Right-Wing Extremist (RWE) Violence in the United States
Despite recent advances in research on terrorism and domestic violent extremism, there has historically been little research on criminal justice...
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Prison and Violent Political Extremism in the United States
ObjectivesIn the current study we consider the link between imprisonment and post-prison participation in violent political extremism. We examine...
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Radicalization in Adolescence: the Identification of Vulnerable Groups
Given that the normative search for identity and belonging, as well as political socialization, plays an important role during adolescence, this life...
