Journal abstract Drawing upon in-depth life-history interviews with 91 North American-based former white supremacists, we examine how participants perceive homicidal violence as either an appropriate or inappropriate political strategy. Based[…]
Journal abstract Mental health issues and psychopathologies have been looked at as potential explanations for violent extremist radicalization for a long time and caused significant debates among academic experts. While[…]
Journal abstract Is radicalization inherently conducive to terrorism? This paper addresses this fault-line within discourses on radicalization by analyzing the political awakening and mobilization of British Muslims operating in environments[…]
Journal abstract Research on negotiating with criminalised actors generally assumes the criminal label as a given, neglecting the significance of criminalisation itself. This article addresses this gap arguing that the[…]
Journal abstract Jihadism in Norway has witnessed a huge shift from consisting primarily of foreign ethnically homogenous networks with a low capacity for mobilization, to the current situation where a[…]
Journal abstract There is considerable agreement amongst scholars and international actors that ideologies and speech play a critical role in the path of escalation towards mass atrocity crimes. Speech features[…]
Executive summary The purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of over 4,600 unique Islamic State personnel records that were produced by the group primarily between early 2013[…]
Journal abstract The present study applies Social Learning (Differential Association) Theory to the explanation of political violence, focusing on exposure to extremist content through new social media (NSM) and controlling[…]
Journal abstract This study proposes a novel methodology for the study of the mindset, motives, and cognitive style of individual suicide bombers in Israel/ Palestine, based on a comprehensive corpus[…]
Journal abstract Research literature suggests a number of possible causes leading to radicalization of young Muslims living in Western countries, including poverty, social marginalization, weak or threatened identities, lack of[…]
Introducing a Dataset of Multi-Scale Geographies of ISIS Ideology from ISIS Sources9 March, 2021
Normalisation, party politics and vigilantism: Why the next terrorist wave will not be right-wing extremist9 March, 2021
Systematic Review of Mental Health Problems and Violent Extremism9 March, 2021
Is Youth Unemployment Related to Domestic Terrorism?8 March, 2021