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‘Is This a Hate Speech?’ The Difficulty in Combating Radicalisation in Coded Communications on Social media Platforms
The use of the Internet for the purposes of radicalisation is well understood. The use of social media platforms to spread messages of hate and...
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Linguistic Radicalisation of Right-Wing and Salafi Jihadist Groups in Social Media: a Corpus-Driven Lexicometric Analysis
Social media groups, for example on Facebook, WhatsApp or Telegram, allow for direct exchange, communication and interaction, as well as networking...
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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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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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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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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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Islamophobia and Securitisation The Dutch Case
This book examines how Muslim communities in the Netherlands perceive and experience extremism, counter-radicalisation policies, and Islamophobia. It...
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Introduction
There has been a great deal of interest in the radicalisation of Muslims in the Netherlands from academics, government officials, and members of...
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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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Conclusion
The final chapter describes the understanding, or rather, misunderstanding, of ‘radicalisation’ in today’s securitised gaze. The Dutch Muslim...
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Self-Policing: “Mosques Don’t Want to Have a Blemished Name”
The final empirical chapter depicts the dilemmas counter-radicalisation policies present for Dutch Muslim communities. With increased securitisation,...
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Qur’anic Education: “Nobody is ‘Woke’”
This chapter discusses the potential efficacy of Qur’anic education as a deterrent against radicalisation. Interviewees suggested that young Muslims...
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Researching Extremists and Terrorists: Reflections on Interviewing Hard-to-Reach Populations
Extremism continues to rank among the principal security concerns of Western states and societies in the twenty-first century. In the last several...
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Helicopter Governance: “The Analysts Only Look at the Numbers”
This chapter compares the national approach towards counter-radicalisation and the implementation of the policies at the level of the local...
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A “Reasonable” and “Excusable” Violence: The Spread of Anti-Muslim Violence Through the Machinery of Media, Social Media and Trigger Events
Anti-Muslim violence and Islamophobic incidents tend to increase during times of crises and tension against Muslims. The role of trigger events in...
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Contesting Terms: Radicalisation and Extremism
The challenge of extremism in recent decades to Western democracies and the resurgence of ‘extremist’ and ‘radical’ movements have led to growing...
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Develo** Effective and Ethical ‘Secondary’ Intervention Programmes to Counter Radicalisation and Polarisation
Intervention programmes for individuals who are showing signs of vulnerability to support for extremist ideologies, referred to as ‘secondary’...
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Migration, Islamophobia, and Securitisation
This chapter presents an overview of the major concerns surrounding the nature of Dutch Muslim communities in the Netherlands. First, a review of...
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Competencies for rehabilitation professionals working with ideology-based terrorism offenders
Selection of competent personnel is critical to in terrorism rehabilitation efforts. Elucidating the characteristics of effective rehabilitation...
