From Profiles to Pathways and Roots to Routes
Perspectives from Psychology on Radicalization into Terrorism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9757983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Horgan (0000-0002-6948-3907, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 618 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-94 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716208317539 |
| OpenAlex | W2018225408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 159 |
| References cited | 12 |
Attempts to profile terrorists have failed resoundingly, leaving behind a poor (and unfair) impression of the potential for a sound psychological contribution to understanding the terrorist. However, recent work in the area has delivered promising and exciting starting points for a conceptual development in understanding the psychological process across all levels of terrorist involvement. Involvement in terrorism is a complex psychosocial process that comprises at least three seemingly distinct phases: becoming involved, being involved—synonymous with engaging in unambiguous terrorist activity—and disengaging (which may or may not result in subsequent de-radicalization). A critical implication of these distinctions is the recognition that each of them may contain unique, or phase-specific, implications for counterterrorism. An argument is made for greater consideration of the disengagement phase with a clearer role for psychological research to inform and enhance practical counterterrorism operations
Argument (complex analysis · Criminology · Disengagement theory · Epistemology · Political science · Process (computing · Radicalization · Terrorism · Computer Science · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Radicalization into Violent Extremism I
The individual risk assessment of terrorism
Developmental Predictors of Violent Extremist Attitudes
Cognitive and behavioral radicalization
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
Radicalisation as redemption
Islamic Radicalization
Silencing or strengthening? Ostracism and far-right radicalization of public figures. A mixed-method case study of a German civil rights activist
How the pandemic shaped teenagers’ views on violence
Not just a game
Fifty years of scholarly research on terrorism
Trauma and the extremist life cycle
Au-delà de la détection des individus « à risque »
Self‐representation and future perception of youth followed by a specialized intervention team in violent radicalization
Radicalizing spaces
Competencies for rehabilitation professionals working with ideology-based terrorism offenders
White Nationalism and Support for Political Violence in the United States
The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
The Transformation of Mohamed Atta
Factors Influencing Radicalization Process at Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels
Risk of What and Why? Disaggregating Pathways to Extremist Behaviours in Individuals Susceptible to Violent Extremism
What if They Are All High-Risk for Attrition? Correlates of Retention in a Longitudinal Study of Reentry from Prison
Analysis of the radicalization of the 17-A terrorist cell
Micro and macro-level risk factors for extremism and terrorism
Adverse childhood experiences, education, and involvement in terrorist violence
Violent extremism in the U.S
Do They Feel Heard? A Study of Canadian Secondary School Students’ Voices Around Violent Extremism
Context-Tailored or User-Tailored
Defining the concept of terrorism from the antropological perspective
They were not radical, even when they committed that
Simply Small Men? Examining Differences Between Females and Males Radicalized in the United States
Gender-based Explosions
The Psychology of Effective Activism
Weaponized Words
The trouble with radicalization
The emergence of ‘radicalisation’ within terrorism studies
Why Are They Credible? Examining the Involvement of Formers in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Within the Indonesian Correctional Systems
Radicalisation et travail social
Engagement radical, désengagement et déradicalisation. Continuum et lignes de fracture
Moral Injury Among Pakistani Lawyers
Explaining Pathways to Armed Activism in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, 1969–1972
Contagious ideas
Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual
Psychological Vulnerabilities and Propensities for Involvement in Violent Extremism
Key aspects of covert networks data collection
A life-course analysis of radicalization among extremists in the Philippines using the life history calendar
Different Strokes for Different Folks
Extremist Thinking and Doing
Youth mental health and religiously framed radicalization in the Middle East and North Africa region
Evidence of Psychological Manipulation in the Process of Violent Radicalization
Pathological fixation on shared beliefs
The potential role of psychological time in the study of violent radicalisation, deradicalisation, and disengagement
How social exclusion makes radicalism flourish
Understanding the psychological aspects of the radicalisation process
Georgian foreign fighter deaths in Syria and Iraq
Strategies for Preventing Radicalisation
Orientation of religiosity and radicalism
Validation of an Inventory of Sensitivity to Ideological Radicalization (Isir-14) in a Mexican Sample
Lethal Images
Radical news? Immigrants’ television use, acculturation challenges, and support for terrorism
Evaluating interventions to disengage extremist offenders
More alike than unlike? Comparing characteristics of violent and non-violent extremist offenders
Identities ‘Betwixt and between’
From a jihadist into an agent against violent extremism
Walking away
Becoming a violent extremist
Ideology, personality disorders and the militant extremist mindset
Pro-integration
Dominant predictors of violent versus non-violent terrorist roles among US Muslim converts
Risk and protective factors in the radicalization process of the 17-A terrorist cell
Between vulnerability and risk? Mental health in UK counter-terrorism
Contemporary terrorism and the true believer
Exiting far-right extremism
Protagonists of terror
Preventing Post-Conflict Terrorism in Poso through Message of Peace
A social semiotics analysis of Islamic State's use of beheadings
Resilient non-radicalisers
Psychologically disturbed and on the side of the terrorists
Rethinking the Beirut bombing, rethinking terrorism
British Muslim youth
An educational response to the “Prevent duty” in England and Wales
Female radicalisation in Bangladesh
Climate extreme
Secondary school teachers’ and prevent practitioners’ conceptualisations of radicalisation in England and the impact of the prevent duty
Going All the Way
Yes, I can”
The radicalization of the Kanes
Assessing the behavioural trajectories of terrorists
Desistance from terrorism
Belief systems and action inferences as a source of violence in the name of Islam
Indicators of terrorist intent and capability
The good, the bad, and the ugly – Involving civil society organizations in Nordic policy for preventing extremism
Jihadi networks and the involvement of vulnerable immigrants
Radical networks and terrorist action
A cultural criminology of “new” jihad
Coalitions and Characters
Informing Lone‐Offender Investigations
Analyzing person‐exposure patterns in lone‐actor terrorism
The Eyes and Ears on Our Frontlines”
Choosing to Fight, Choosing to Die
Genesis of Suicide Terrorism
Root Causes of Terrorism
Understanding Terror Networks
The Psychology of Terrorism
The Mind of the Terrorist
The terrorists in their own words
A Conceptual Framework for Addressing Psychological Process in the Development of the Terrorist
Resurgence of a terrorist organisation part 1
Islamophobia in America
Becoming a Committed Insider
| Unique citing works | 159 |
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| Citations per year | 2,79 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2026 (58) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 157 |