People without ideologies or with confused ideologies make up the largest group of people reported to the Prevent programme.
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Nearly one in five defendants in the prosecutions undertaken in response to the January 6 US Capitol attack had served in the military.
Exploring many contemporary cases of radical behaviour showed they had one thing in common: how the risk of radicalisation may be linked to fractured relationships.
To combat online radicalisation, we first need to understand that the picture is rarely as simple as we’d like it to be.
Jake Davison, the gunman in the UK’s worst mass shooting in a decade, has been linked to the ‘Incel’ movement – but what what do incels really believe?
Comparisons between Begum’s Islamic garb and her new wardrobe suggest that Muslim women’s “liberation” depends on westernisation.
Canada needs a better framework to understand and analyze the participation of women who marry ISIS soldiers — and find ways to hold them accountable
The government’s definition of extremism falls short of what’s needed, but new definitions could make things more complicated
QAnon followers are different from the radicals I usually study in one key way: They are far more likely to have serious mental illnesses.
New members are joining and some are leaving – as right-wing groups reorganize, scholars of the movement foresee increased polarization, with a risk of more violence.
We found parallels between how individuals perform in brain games and the kind of political attitudes they adhere to.
The time has come to deal with hateful extremism before it manifests as violent extremism. This includes having a public register of hate incidents.
Death threats against Republicans who oppose Trump are not just the result of angry people. They are, instead, an attempt to intimidate people into sticking with his movement.
Encrypted messaging services like Telegram provide virtual dark corners where far-right extremists can recruit, organize and plan unhindered.
A leaked database shows at least 10% of the far-right Oath Keepers militia is active police or military – people professionally trained in using weapons and conducting sophisticated operations.
Fascists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists have historically been agile adopters of the internet — and they know how to use it to their advantage.
Millions of supporters of Donald Trump flocked to the far-right social media platform, where hate speech and calls for violence thrive. The US Capitol insurrection could be the platform’s undoing.
Millions of supporters of Donald Trump have flocked to the far-right social media platform Parler, where hate speech thrives.
School reforms pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron are aimed at pushing Muslim students into public schools. An expert explains why this may be the wrong approach.
People typically underestimate how much white nationalism goes on in the military, but when they learn the truth, they’re concerned.
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Adjunct Professor, Natural Resource Institute (NRI), University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Director of Research, Academic Development and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas
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Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield