Analyzing Radicalization and Terrorism

Wikström, Per‐Olof H.; Marchment, Zoe

doi:10.1002/9781118923986.ch11

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“…It suggests that the intention to commit violence or the belief that violence is justified is unlikely to be enough on their own to initiate the attack process. This is consistent with the view, long held in criminology, that propensity (belief in the legitimacy of violence; i.e., radicalization) and motivation to commit an act of violence are distinct concepts in the analysis of violence and that this distinction is a crucial one, inasmuch as preventing propensity acquisition and disrupting motivation emergence and maintenance require very different kinds of interventions .…”

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Lone Actor Terrorist Attack Planning and Preparation: A Data‐Driven Analysis,

Schuurman

Bakker

Gill

et al. 2017

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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ABSTRACT:This article provides an in-depth assessment of lone actor terrorists' attack planning and preparation. A codebook of 198 variables related to different aspects of pre-attack behavior is applied to a sample of 55 lone actor terrorists. Data were drawn from open-source materials and complemented where possible with primary sources. Most lone actors are not highly lethal or surreptitious attackers. They are generally poor at maintaining operational security, leak their motivations and capabilities in numerous ways, and generally do so months and even years before an attack. Moreover, the "loneness" thought to define this type of terrorism is generally absent; most lone actors uphold social ties that are crucial to their adoption and maintenance of the motivation and capability to commit terrorist violence. The results offer concrete input for those working to detect and prevent this form of terrorism and argue for a re-evaluation of the "lone actor" concept.

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confidence: 88%

Lone Actor Terrorist Attack Planning and Preparation: A Data‐Driven Analysis,

Schuurman

Bakker

Gill

et al. 2017

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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“…In particular, an individual's internal controls are important to regulating responses to strain and shaping the pathways with which to cope (Wikström and Bouhana 2016). Consistent with this perspective Mazerolle and Maahs 2000;Mazerolle and Piquero 1997), we find that low moral and legal constraints, as operationalized here by moral neutralization and legal cynicism, condition the effect of collective strain on support for violent extremism.…”

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confidence: 62%

Developmental Predictors of Violent Extremist Attitudes

Nivette

Eisner

Ribeaud

2017

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives: This study examines the influence of collective strain on support for violent extremism among an ethnically diverse sample of Swiss adolescents. This study explores two claims derived from general strain theory:(1) Exposure to collective strain is associated with higher support for violent extremism and (2) the effect of collective strain is conditional on perceptions of moral and legal constraints. Methods: This study uses data from two waves of the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youth. We use ordinary least squares procedures to regress violent extremist attitudes at age 17 on strain, moral and legal constraints, and control variables measured at ages 15 to 17. Conditional effects were examined using an interaction term for collective strain and moral neutralization and legal cynicism, respectively. Results: The results show that collective strain does not have a direct effect on violent extremist attitudes

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“…To address this ambiguity, Bouhana and Wikström (2011;Wikström and Bouhana, 2016) set out a causal model of radicalisation founded on Situational Action Theory (SAT; Wikström, 2010), an integrative theory of crime causation, which views crime essentially as an act of moral rule-breaking. SAT has been proposed as a useful framework for the explanation of individual involvement in terrorist and political violence, moving beyond a mere "risk factor approach" (Schils & Pauwels, 2014;2016) and deepening understanding of the role of person-environment interactions (Bouhana & Wikström, 2010;2011;Wikström, Mann & Hardie, 2018).…”

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“…Self-selection refers to the preference-based choices people make to attend particular time-and place-based activities, within the constraints of the forces of social selection. At the individual level, self-selection operates on the basis of the preferences (likes and dislikes) a person has acquired through life experience (Wikström & Bouhana, 2016).…”

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The multifinality of vulnerability indicators in lone-actor terrorism

Corner

Marchment

Gill

2018

Psychology, Crime & Law

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To move beyond current aggregate and static conclusions regarding radicalisation and subsequent terrorist behaviour, empirical research should look to criminological models which are influenced by the life course perspective.Current UK government policy designed to prevent radicalisation and terrorist engagement look to outputs from criminological perspectives to inform policy and practice. However, the guidance suffers from a lack of specificity as to the major concept of 'vulnerability to radicalisation', and what this incorporates. This investigation uses sequential analyses to add to our understanding of 'vulnerability' in the specific context of lone-actor terrorism. The statistical method bridges the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches and provides a series of empirical outputs which visualise typical lone-actor terrorist trajectories through the discrete stages of radicalisation, attack planning and attack commission.

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Analyzing Radicalization and Terrorism

Cited by 64 publications

References 43 publications

Lone Actor Terrorist Attack Planning and Preparation: A Data‐Driven Analysis,

Lone Actor Terrorist Attack Planning and Preparation: A Data‐Driven Analysis,

Developmental Predictors of Violent Extremist Attitudes

The multifinality of vulnerability indicators in lone-actor terrorism

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