Encouraging public reporting of suspicious behaviour on rail networks

Pearce, Julia M.; Parker, David; Lindekilde, Lasse; Marchment, Zoe; Rogers, M. Brooke

doi:10.1080/10439463.2019.1607340

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“…Levels of confidence rise as signs of radicalisation become more serious. The British findings are in line with previous studies of terrorism reporting among the general public (Pearce et al ., 2019). Based on our study, we can only speculate what explains this country difference.…”

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Recognising and responding to radicalisation at the ‘frontline’: Assessing the capability of school teachers to recognise and respond to radicalisation

Parker

Lindekilde

Gøtzsche‐Astrup

2020

British Educational Res J

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Governments across the west have put teachers at the forefront of efforts to tackle radicalisation of young people based on their proximity to potentially vulnerable students. This has proven controversial, as critics claim that this securitises teachers’ work and that they cannot be expected to accurately identify and respond to extremism. Despite investment in P/CVE teacher training, research to assess teachers’ competence to identify signs of radicalisation and to respond in an appropriate manner is scarce. This article presents findings from a survey experiment with 2,173 teachers in Great Britain and Denmark. It shows that British and Danish teachers largely recognise radicalisation cues and respond to student radicalisation in similar ways. However, our data shows that British teachers are more likely than Danish teachers to react formally (e.g. report to authorities), and that British teachers feel more confident in reacting to signs of radicalisation. The results enhance our understanding of the effects of radicalisation prevention in schools. Furthermore, they challenge arguments within the extant literature by suggesting that what leads to concerns of radicalisation is not entirely subjective or completely context dependent.

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confidence: 99%

“…482–483). Indeed, studies have identified high levels of uncertainty even for relatively overt indicators of terrorist activities (Pearce et al ., 2019). This may lead to under‐reporting in ambiguous cases.…”

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Recognising and responding to radicalisation at the ‘frontline’: Assessing the capability of school teachers to recognise and respond to radicalisation

Parker

Lindekilde

Gøtzsche‐Astrup

2020

British Educational Res J

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“…The limited literature examining public reporting within suspicious activity scenarios speaks mostly to intervention barriers. Specifically, there appears to be confusion with identifying such behavior (FEMA, 2012), especially when it is not directly related to attack planning (LaFree & Adamczyk, 2017; Pearce et al, 2019). For example, LaFree and Adamczyk (2017) determined that the Boston marathon attack affected the reporting of various suspicious activities, like the distribution of terrorist literature.…”

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Implicit Bias Within Public Reporting: A Virtual Reality Experiment Examining “Suspicious” Activity

Carson

Politte

2020

Crime & Delinquency

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Campaigns like that of the Department of Homeland Security’s “See Something, Say Something” are intended to increase public reporting of “terrorism-related behaviors.” Yet given prior research on whom the general public considers to be a terrorist, it is likely these types of programs are instead affected by pejorative automatic associations. With this in mind, we inquire: Does implicit bias affect public reporting within a suspicious activity scenario? Through a randomized experiment using virtual reality technology, we find evidence of such bias, as manifested in whether participants indicated they would call the police when presented with a Middle Eastern male. We conclude effective counterterrorism programming should involve an awareness campaign component detailing what terrorism truly looks like in the United States.

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“…Such approaches encourage members of the public to share concerns or information about people they don't know personally or know well, but whose suspicious or unacceptable behaviour they have observed (Rowe 2018). A good example of bystander reporting-oriented campaigning is the highly successful "See it, Say it, Sorted" C/PVE awareness campaign on the UK's national rail system (Pearce et al 2019).…”

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Community reporting on violent extremism by “intimates”: emergent findings from international evidence

Thomas

Grossman

Christmann

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Critical Studies on Terrorism

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To promote early intervention strategies, Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism (C/PVE) policies internationally seek to encourage community reporting by "intimates" about someone close to them engaging in terrorist planning. Yet historically, we have scant evidence around what either helps or hinders "intimates" to share concerns with authorities. We address that deficit here through a "state of the art" assessment of what we currently know about effective related C/PVE approaches to community reporting, based on key findings from a groundbreaking Australian study and its UK replication. The consistency of qualitative findings from nearly 100 respondents offers new paradigms for policy and practice.

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Encouraging public reporting of suspicious behaviour on rail networks

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

Recognising and responding to radicalisation at the ‘frontline’: Assessing the capability of school teachers to recognise and respond to radicalisation

Recognising and responding to radicalisation at the ‘frontline’: Assessing the capability of school teachers to recognise and respond to radicalisation

Implicit Bias Within Public Reporting: A Virtual Reality Experiment Examining “Suspicious” Activity

Community reporting on violent extremism by “intimates”: emergent findings from international evidence

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