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Updating and organizing our knowledge of risk and protective factors for lone-actor terrorism

Corner, E; Bouhana, N; Gill, P; (2021) Updating and organizing our knowledge of risk and protective factors for lone-actor terrorism. In: Terrorism Risk Assessment Instruments: Contemporary Policy and Law Enforcement Challenges. (pp. 116-136). IOS Press: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Green open access

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Abstract

This chapter updates builds upon previous descriptive analyses of loneactor terrorists, their behaviours, ideological backgrounds and degrees of 'loneness'. It offers greater conceptual clarity, updated data and a more expansive set of variables from previous analyses. Individual vulnerability indicators examined here include potential indicators of cognitive susceptibility to moral change, and self-selection and social selection into radicalizing settings, notably membership of a social network containing one or more radicalized individual. We also examine exposure settings, attack-preparation behaviours and explore sub-set analyses of the data. The analyses informed by a Risk Analysis Framework which offers a multilevel, integrated meta-model of these events and allows for the synthesis of disparate findings. The analyses provide key insights into the behaviour of lone-actors, which could inform intelligence gathering and investigative practice, as such analyses already do in other crime prevention domains.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Updating and organizing our knowledge of risk and protective factors for lone-actor terrorism
ISBN-13: 9781643681665
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3233/NHSDP210006
Publisher version: https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/NHSDP210006
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics, Volume 152: Terrorism Risk Assessment Instruments, 116-136, 2021, 10.3233/NHSDP210006. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124285
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