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- in Pathways to radicalisation · Radicalisation · Research
Violent extremism, mental health and substance abuse among adolescents: towards a trauma psychological perspective on violent radicalization and deradicalization

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[…]

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- in Groups · Research
“The Lions of Tomorrow”: A News Value Analysis of Child Images in Jihadi Magazines

Journal abstract This article reports and discusses the results of a study that investigated photographic images of children in five online terrorist magazines to understand the roles of children in[…]

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- in Research
Understanding Suicide Terrorism: Psychosocial Dynamics

Publisher’s description The book is a comprehensive compilation of articles by experts in the field of suicide terrorism from across the world and across disciplines with a focus on suicide[…]

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Children at War: Foreign Child Recruits of the Islamic State

Journal abstract The Islamic State’s recruitment of children is a challenge with no easy solutions. Islamic State foreign fighter records show that foreign children fighters tend to be, as expected,[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World
Rearing Cubs of the Caliphate: An Examination of Child Soldier Recruitment by Da’esh

Journal abstract This study investigates child soldier recruitment strategies of the Islamic State group (Da’esh). It argues that while the dominant caretaker and free-ranger approaches to child soldier recruitment make[…]

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Children in Minority Religions Growing up in Controversial Religious Groups

Publisher’s description Minority religions that differ from the mainstream are often perceived as controversial and as a threat to the individual and to society. During the 1970s and 80s, there[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Research
Addressing Radicalisation into the Classroom – A New Approach to Teacher and Pupil Learning

Journal abstract This article examines one response to the UK Government’s directive that radicalisation and extremism should be tackled in all UK secondary schools. The small scale study is set[…]

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From Cubs to Lions: A Six Stage Model of Child Socialization into the Islamic State

Journal abstract Using the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) as a case study, we explore the process by which children evolve from novice recruits to fully fledged members[…]

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- in Prevention · Regions · Research · UK
‘Digital fluency’: towards young people’s critical use of the internet

Journal abstract The rise of the internet as the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today poses an acute challenge to the information literacy (IL) community.[…]

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