Both cults and violent extremist movements have similar push and pull factors at the individual level.
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At least five people were killed and many more were injured after an SUV crashed into a Christmas parade. A terrorism expert explains how vehicles have been weaponized.
Whether the perpetrator in the attack on a Muslim family that left four dead is charged with terrorism remains to be seen. But laying terrorism charges is legally complex.
The law continues to treat intimate partner violence like a bar fight – considering only what happened in a given violent incident. But domestic violence isn’t about just physical violence.
South Africa frequently invokes its celebrated constitution that is based on human rights, but has often failed to live up to its ideals.
Mentally ill, white supremacist video game-playing men are pushing rates of mass homicide ever higher in the US? The real data is more nuanced than common misperceptions suggest.
Forty years ago this shocking event paved the way for a 24-year rule of fear that saw Iraqi citizens repressed, tortured and murdered.
Despite low crime rates, indiscriminate mass stabbings aren’t unheard of in Japan. But unlike recent mass killings in Western countries, they aren’t motivated by right-wing ideology.
After mass killings, politicians feel compelled to offer solutions to gun violence. One of the most common answers is better access to mental health care, but research has found that’s not effective.
Was the suspect in Toronto’s van attack inspired by a misogynist mass killer in the United States?
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PhD Student in Political Science, Michigan State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Full Professor of Criminology & English Literature, Western University
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Senior Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies, UMass Amherst
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Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of Politics, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Professor, Director of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck, University of London