Evidence-Based Work with Violent Extremists

Martine Herzog-Evans is professor of criminal law and criminology at the University of Reims.Massil Benbouriche is associate professor of psychology and justice at the University of Lille.

• Part I: Laying Down the Theoretical GroundsChapter 1: A General Psycho-Criminological Understanding of Violent Extremism by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 2: What’s criminology got to do with it? By Martine Herzog-Evans and Massil BenbouricheChapter 3: Dynamical Threat Assessment: An Innovative Approach to Preventive Investigations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism by Jason Freeland, Jytte Klausen, and Caroline A. PagéChapter 4: Violence-Supportive Cognition and Implicit Theories in Aggressive and Violent Behaviors: Implications for Violent Extremism by Massil Benbouriche and Olivier VanderstukkenChapter 5: A Focus on Identity and Identity Fusion by Sophie Berjot Chapter 6: A Significance Quest Framework of Radicalization and Deradicalizaton by David WebberChapter 7: The Religious Dimensions of Extremism by Heather S. Gregg Part II: Situating the French contextChapter 8: Extremist Violence on French Soil in the Wake of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the New Lines of Public Action by Benjamin Ducol and Alex WoodChapter 9: French Violent Extremists, Before and After Merah: Psychopathology by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 10: French Violent Extremists, Before and Since Merah: Criminogenic and Specific Needs by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 11: A Psycho-Criminological Study of French Terrorist Women since 2012 by Marie PerrierPart III: Reacting to Violent ExtremismChapter 12: The Legal Understanding of the Four Stages of the Radicalization to Terrorism Continuum: Issues of Public Safety and Civil Liberties in France by Martine Herzog-Evans, Jean-Philippe Vicentini and Vincent DufourdChapter 13: Incarcerating Terrorists in the West: From Segregation to Dispersal and Back Again by Mark S. HammChapter 14: The Balance between Human Rights and Efficacy by Vanja GrujicChapter 15: Developing and Implementing an EBP Program in the French Context by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 16: Good Practices: UK: Translating Identity Theory into Identity Informed Intervention by Christopher DeanChapter 17: A Dutch Source of Inspiration: Violent Emotional States by Marije Keulen de Vos

Over the last 20 years, the world has witnessed a significant increase in violent terrorism, leading prevention efforts against radicalism and extremism to become a top policy priority of countless nation-states. In addressing this challenge questions remain: What motivates individuals to participate in violent terrorism? How do home-grown terrorists come about? What contributes to this radicalization? Focusing on France, the editors and contributors confront this topic from different disciplines, presenting a multidisciplinary and evidence-based understanding of this phenomenon through social psychology, criminology, social science, law, and religious studies. They further analyze the degree to which modern forms of terrorism contrast with past instances. Through 19 chapters, presented in three parts, the authors cover theoretical foundations, the French context of violent extremist causes, and reactions to violent extremism, including official actions to manage and reduce threats, social responses, and the possibility of evidence-based intervention with individual offenders. This is a complex, well-organized, and excellent book that raises important questions and yields useful theoretical and policy implications. It should serve as a guide for similar research regarding other case studies.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals.