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The age of lone wolf terrorism
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ISBN: 9780231181747 9780231543774 0231543778 0231181744 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the motivations behind them. In The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, terrorism experts Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map the pathways of lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of suspected behaviors and recognizing patterns of indoctrination.Reviewing comprehensive data on these actors, including more than two hundred terrorist incidents, Hamm and Spaaij find that a combination of personal and political grievances lead lone wolves to befriend online sympathizers-whether jihadists, white supremacists, or other antigovernment extremists-and then announce their intent to commit terror when triggered. Hamm and Spaaij carefully distinguish between lone wolves and individuals radicalized within a group dynamic. This important difference is what makes this book such a significant manual for professionals seeking richer insight into the transformation of alienated individuals into armed warriors. Hamm and Spaaij conclude with an analysis of recent FBI sting operations designed to prevent lone-wolf terrorism in the United States, describing who gets targeted, strategies for luring suspects, and the ethics of arresting and prosecuting citizens.


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Negotiating with terrorists : strategy, tactics and politics
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ISBN: 0415566290 0415681928 1136998659 9786612569951 0203855590 1136998667 1282569953 9780415681926 9780415566292 Year: 2011 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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This work addresses the important questions of negotiating with terrorists and offers recommendations for best practice and processes

Origins of terrorism : psychologies, ideologies, theologies, states of mind
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ISBN: 0943875897 9780943875897 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson center press,

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Understanding deradicalization : methods, tools and programs for countering violent extremism
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ISBN: 9781138122772 9781317304395 9781315649566 131564956X 131730439X 9781317304371 1317304373 9781317304388 1317304381 1138122777 9780815347583 0815347588 Year: 2017 Publisher: Abingdon: Routledge,

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This book provides a comprehensive guide to the different aspects of deradicalization theories, programs and methods.It analyzes the practical and theoretical aspects of deradicalization programs and the methods being employed to bring extremists and terrorist back to a non-violent life. The book includes in-depth case studies on programs and former extremists, including interviews with former German neo-Nazis and families of Jihadists who have received deradicalization counselling. Using a coherent theory of radicalization and deradicalization, it integrates existing programs into a typology and methodology regarding the effects and concepts behind deradicalization. In addition, a current state of the art assessment of deradicalization programs around the world provides a collection of programs and landscapes worldwide. It thereby functions as a unique guide for practitioners and policymakers in need of evaluation or construction of such programs, as well as a resource pool for academics interested in research about deradicalization programs and processes. The major aim of this book is to consolidate the existing scholarship on deradicalization and to move the field forward by proposing a coherent theory of deradicalization, including ways to measure effectiveness, standard methods and procedures, different actors of such programs and cooperation on national and international level. In essence, this work enables the reader to identify how, when and why deradicalization programs work, how they can be built and structured, and to identify their limitations.This book will be of interest to students of radicalisation, counter-terrorism, radical Islam, criminology, security studies and IR.


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Walking away from terrorism : accounts of disengagement from radical and extremist movements
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ISBN: 9780415439435 9780415439442 9780203874738 0415439434 0415439442 0203874730 9781135285432 9781135285470 9781135285487 Year: 2009 Publisher: London: Routledge,


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Origins of terrorism : psychologies, ideologies, theologies, states of mind
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ISBN: 052138589X 0521385636 Year: 1990 Volume: vol *5 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Cambridge [England] New York Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Cambridge University Press


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Le Jihadisme des femmes : pourquoi ont-elles choisi Daech ?
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ISBN: 9782021359145 202135914X Year: 2017 Publisher: [Paris]: Éditions du Seuil,


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Comment en sont-ils arrivés là ? : Les clés pour comprendre le parcours des djihadistes
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ISBN: 9782200620110 220062011X Year: 2017 Publisher: Malakoff: Armand Colin,

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Le terrorisme djihadiste en Europe occidentale est principalement le fait de jeunes européens. Comment certains dentre eux en arrivent-ils à commettre des attentats-suicides et à se retourner contre la société dans laquelle ils ont grandi ? Comment en sont-ils arrivés là ? Pour répondre à ces questions, Luc Van Campenhoudt, sociologue belge qui a travaillé sur la déviance et la transgression, sur l'insécurité, ainsi que sur le pouvoir dans les réseaux, décrypte dans un style clair et à l'aide de nombreux exemples comment s'opèrent la mobilisation et la radicalisation de ces jeunes. C'est en réalité l'enchaînement de processus relativement banals qui les conduit à commettre ces actes terrifiants. Ce décryptage est une condition indispensable pour lutter contre le terrorisme djihadiste de manière à la fois efficace et juste. Si nous voulons contrer une mobilisation potentiellement à large échelle, nous devons en saisir les ressorts et favoriser des alternatives susceptibles de mieux rencontrer les aspirations des jeunes et les besoins de la société.


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Leaving terrorism behind : individual and collective disengagement
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ISBN: 9780415776677 9780415776684 0415776686 9780203884751 0203884752 9781135971014 9781135971052 9781135971069 0415776678 Year: 2009 Publisher: Abingdon: Routledge,

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This new edited volume expands our understanding of the processes by which individuals and groups disengage from terrorism. While there has been a growing awareness of the need to understand and prevent processes of radicalization into terrorism, disengagement and deradicalization from terrorism have long been neglected areas in research on terrorism. This book uses empirical data to explore how and why individuals and groups disengage from terrorism, and what can be done to facilitate it. The work also presents a series of case studies of disengagement programs, from Colombia, northern Europe, Italy, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, comparing and assessing their various strengths and weaknesses. In light of lessons learned from these cases, this book describes and explains potential for new developments in counter-terrorism. This book will be of great interest to all students of terrorism studies, war and conflict studies, international security and politics in general, as well as professionals in the field of counter-terrorism--Publisher's description.

The terrorist identity : explaining the terrorist threat
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ISBN: 0814707157 0814707165 9780814707159 9780814707166 1429486031 0814707815 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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"Arena and Arrigo give us a brilliant glimpse into the 'terrorist' psyche as they detail the creation and maintenance of identity in various terrorist organizations. Their conceptual framework has important implications for law enforcement, public policy makers, and academic researchers engaged in the study of terrorism." -Lynne Snowden, co-author of 'Collective Violence'"The overall quality of this book is astonishing, the ease of reading and the depth of theoretical knowledge, equally impressive. It is a valuable contribution to the terrorism literature and of such quality that it will be quoted, used, debated, and confronted by researchers for years to come. This book represents a vanguard of sociological thought on this subject and is a much needed voice in the debates on terrorism." -James David Ballard, author of Terrorism, Media, And Public Policy: The Oklahoma City BombingWho would strap a bomb to his chest, walk into a crowded subway station and blow himself up? Only by examining how a terrorist understands his own identity and actions can this question be answered. The authors of The Terrorist Identity explore how the notion of self-concept combined with membership in terrorist and extremist groups, can shape and sustain the identity of a terrorist as well as their subsequent justification for violence and the legitimacy of their actions.The book provides an understanding of identity that draws on concepts from psychology, criminology, and sociology. Notably, the book examines several case studies of various terrorist groups, including: the Provisional Irish Republican Army, Hamas, the Shining Path, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and racist Skinheads. By making the construct of identity central to this analysis The Terrorist Identity explains how violent and extremist collective behavior emerges culturally, how it informs the identity of group members socially, and how participants assume their place in these groups completely even at the expense

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