Many observers describe prison subcultures as inherently and irredeemably antisocial. Research directly ties to violence, gang membership, poor reintegration. In extreme cases, research has also suggested that contribute incarcerated people joining radical groups or embracing violent extremist beliefs. These claims, however, ignore key differences in the larger cultural social context of prison...

Suicide bombing refers to someone who carries out a bomb attack with the intention of killing themselves as well others. The destruction human life, particularly involving women, without proper justification is considered contrary religious and humanitarian values. However, there are extremist groups that use women carry suicide attacks oriented around arguments. Therefore, this study was condu...

This presentation summarizes a register-based study on women who have been identified as belonging to three violent extremist milieus in Sweden: Islamic, far-right, and far-left extremism. We studied the these along number of analytical dimensions, ranging from demographic educational criminal background network relationships, compared them reference groups: (i) non-extremist biological sisters...

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity for right-wing extremism to legitimize its claims and promote anti-Asian rhetoric. This led increase in hate crimes against Asian descendants the US, UK, Canada. Online platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, 4Chan, Telegram have been used spread disinformation conspiracy theories frame crisis agenda of building a “white ethnostate.” Civil society ...

The Islamic revival has been observed in the Republic of Dagestan since 90s and is associated with a return to historical roots its peoples, advancing traditional religious cultural values, spread ideologies practices pseudo-Islamic radical extremist groups movements. Traditional values contributed social spiritual integration Muslims Dagestan, while activities political extremists their disint...

Baghdad, Christchurch or Paris: Over the last years, many cities were location of extremist attacks – but only some incidents covered as “terrorism”. Journalists selectively attach label to particular acts political violence. This study analyses how characteristics and their perpetrators influence whether news media portray terrorism. Based on between 2012 2018 ( N = 86,668) coverage in German ...