Understanding recruitment to organized crime and terrorism

Understanding recruitment to organized crime and terrorism / David Weisburd, Ernesto U. Savona, Badi Hasisi, Francesco Calderoni, editors.

This volume provides insights on how recruitment patterns develop for two related types of criminal networks: organized crime and terrorism. It specifically explores the social, situational, psychological, and economic drivers of recruitment. Although organized crime networks and terrorism networks...

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Other Authors: Weisburd, David, Savona, Ernesto U., Hasisi, Badi, Calderoni, Francesco
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Subjects:
Organized crime.
Terrorists > Recruiting.
Terrorism, armed struggle.
Social issues & processes.
Crime & criminology.
Political Science > Political Freedom & Security > Terrorism.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Social Science > Criminology.
Organized crime
Terrorists > Recruiting
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • About the Editors
  • Introduction
  • Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism
  • Recruitment to Organized Crime
  • The Studies
  • Overlap and Distinctive Patterns: What We Learned
  • Conclusions and Policy Recommendations
  • References
  • Part I: Factors Affecting Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism
  • What Is the State of the Quantitative Literature on Risk Factors for Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism?
  • Introduction
  • A Review of Prior Reviews
  • Limiting Inclusion Criteria in Radicalization Research Synthesis
  • The Current Study
  • Context: Separating Between Democratic and Non-democratic Countries
  • Research Designs
  • Outcomes
  • Search Strategy
  • Results
  • Publications by Year
  • Context
  • Populations
  • Authorship
  • Dependent Variable
  • Data Sources
  • Methodologies
  • Most Commonly Examined Factors
  • Results from Meta-analysis
  • Discussion and Conclusions
  • References
  • Resilience against Political and Religious Extremism, Radicalization, and Related Violence: A Systematic Review of Studies on Protective Factors
  • Introduction
  • Protective Factors and Resilience
  • Method
  • Eligibility of Studies
  • Literature Search
  • Coding
  • Descriptive Characteristics of the Dataset
  • Results
  • Results of the Quantitative Studies
  • Results of the Qualitative Studies
  • Discussion
  • Discussion of the Quantitative Studies
  • Qualitative Studies
  • Relations to Various Theories
  • Limitations of Our Review
  • Practical Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • References
  • ∗ Quantitative studies included in this review
  • † Qualitative studies included in this review
  • Terrorist Recidivism in Israel: Rates, Patterns and Risk Factors
  • Introduction
  • Terrorist Recidivism
  • Risk Factors for Recidivism to Terrorism Offending
  • The Current Study
  • Methods
  • Data
  • Variables
  • Analysis
  • Results
  • Recidivism Rates
  • History of Prior Security Convictions
  • Age at Time of Release
  • Age at First Incarceration
  • Length of Sentence Served
  • Offence Type
  • Affiliation
  • Marital Status
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Unintended Negative Outcomes of Counter-Terrorism Policing: Procedural (in)Justice and Perceived Risk of Recruitment into Terrorism
  • Introduction
  • Procedural (in)Justice Theory and Terrorism Recruitment
  • Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in the United Kingdom
  • Data and Methods
  • The Procedure
  • Basic Sample Characteristics
  • Results
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • The Link Between Prior Criminal Record and Violent Political Extremism in the United States
  • Introduction
  • Literature Review
  • Previous Criminal Behavior
  • Crime Specialization and Diversity
  • Age of Onset and Violent Crime
  • Research Questions
  • Data
  • Descriptive Results
  • Pre-radicalization Crime Rates of U.S. Extremists
  • Pre-radicalization Criminal Activity of U.S. Extremists
  • Age of Crime Onset

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