Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization, edited by Derek M.D. Silva and Mathieu Deflem (Emerald Publishing, 2020)

Derek M.D. Silva, Editor 
and 
Mathieu Deflem, Editor
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This book is published as Volume 25 of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance.

Emerald Publishing (Bingley, UK), 2020. ISBN-13: 978-1839829895 / ISBN-10: 1839829893



SYNOPSIS 

Radicalization, generally understood as a process whereby individuals or groups shift away from conventional or status quo political, religious, or otherwise ideological thoughts, views, and behaviors toward violence, has received increasing media, political, and academic consideration. This volume explores the scholarship on radicalization as a criminalized space and counter-radicalization as a mechanism through which that space is controlled, as increasingly influential practices that affect our daily lives. Themes covered in this volume include notions of risk, security, and surveillance, crime and deviance, gender, social psychology, policing, private security, prison radicalization, terrorist organization and disengagement, narratives and counter-narratives, political propaganda, media, and cultural representations of radicalization.

This volume is published in the series, Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: DECIPHERING (COUNTER-)RADICALIZATION [online]
        Derek M.D. Silva and Mathieu Deflem

PART I – THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES

DOES DERADICALIZATION WORK?
John Horgan and Katharina Meredith

NAVIGATING RADICALIZATION CONCEPTS: A ROLE FOR THE HARM PRINCIPLE
Keiran Hardy

RADICALIZATION AS TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING: A THEORETICAL AND ILLUSTRATIVE EXPLORATION
Alex Wilner and Claire-Jehanne Dubouloz

ADVANCES IN VIOLENT EXTREMIST RISK ANALYSIS
Paul Gill, Zoe Marchment, Sanaz Zolghadriha, Nadine Salman, Bettina Rottweiler, Caitlin Clemmow, Isabelle Van Der Vegt

PART II – STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY

THE ROLE OF STATE VIOLENCE IN THE ADOPTION OF TERRORISM
Stephen Chicoine

COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM, SAFEGUARDING AND THE LAW: A PRACTITIONER’S PERSPECTIVE ON PROTECTING YOUNG AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE FROM EXPLOITATION
Carys Evans

COUNTER-RADICALIZATION AS CIVIC INTEGRATION
Therese O’Toole

THE SECURITIZATION OF MUSLIM CIVIL SOCIETY IN CANADA
Fahad Ahmad

PART III – THE ONLINE SPACE AND RADICALIZATION

CLEARING THE SMOKE AND BREAKING THE MIRRORS: USING ATTITUDINAL INOCULATION TO CHALLENGE ONLINE DISINFORMATION BY EXTREMISTS
Kurt Braddock

LEARNING TO HATE: EXPLAINING PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE EXTREMISM
James Hawdon and Matthew Costello

HATRED SHE WROTE: A COMPARATIVE TOPIC ANALYSIS OF EXTREME RIGHT AND ISLAMIC STATE WOMEN-ONLY FORUMS 
Ayse Lokmanoglu and Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

PART IV – THE ROLE OF FORMERS AND PRISONS

EXAMINING ‘PREVENT’ FROM A FORMER COMBATANT PERSPECTIVE
Tom Pettinger

FORMER EXTREMISTS IN RADICALIZATION AND COUNTER-RADICALIZATION RESEARCH
Ryan Scrivens, Steven Windisch, and Pete Simi

ENGAGEMENT, DESISTANCE, AND REVOLT: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TERRORISTS WHO TURN INTO INFORMANTS?
Stefano Bonino



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