Chapter abstract Purpose In this chapter, we examine several attributes of lone wolf terrorists and how their activities are temporally and geospatially patterned. In particular, we demonstrate how precursor behaviors[…]
Journal abstract Since the Second World War, Great Britain has witnessed a recurring escalation and de-escalation of confrontations between extreme right-wing or anti-minority protest groups on the one hand and,[…]
Journal abstract The article argues that we are witnessing a lethal “mainstreaming” trend across Europe that involves previously taboo ideas, frames, and practices becoming the new “common sense” for growing[…]
Publisher’s description The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass[…]
Publisher’s description This volume examines “jihadi” content on the internet by drawing on both Arabic and English primary source materials. After examining this content as digital media, the work looks[…]
Families are bound to be urged to be more vigilant for signs of radicalisation after it emerged that a young man from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is believed to have become[…]
Journal abstract During the quarter century before the First World War, anarchist terrorism was often blamed on the impact of anarchist agitators on naïve immigrants. This article seeks to investigate[…]
Journal abstract This article describes the development of foreign fighters’ preparatory modes of operation between 2000 and 2013, based on an analysis of 17 closed police investigations and 21 semi-structured[…]
Journal abstract Although foreign fighting is hardly new, scholarly research on the phenomenon is only a decade old. Since 2005, there has also been a dramatic rise in the number[…]
Journal abstract This article examines foreign fighters and the insurgency in the North Caucasus. The first part of the article addresses conceptual issues concerning the ways that foreign fighters are[…]
A micro-sociological analysis of homegrown violent extremist attacks in the UK in 201717 April, 2019
Tunisian terrorist fighters: a grassroots perspective15 April, 2019Ostracism promotes a terroristic mindset12 April, 2019The radicalization of the Kanes: family as a primary group influence?10 April, 2019