[HTML][HTML] Psychopathology of young terrorist offenders, and the interaction with ideology and grievances

N Duits, DL Alberda, M Kempes - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Psychopathology might be a risk factor for terrorist offending as it is for violent offending.
Therefore, we examined the prevalence of psychopathology in young and adult Jihadist …

Reviewing the links between violent extremism and personality, personality disorders, and psychopathy

E Corner, H Taylor, I Van Der Vegt, N Salman… - Violent …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Many early published analyses of the terrorist placed psychopathy as the core explanatory
variable for terrorist behaviour. This speculative opinion was derived mainly from popular …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying risk factors for Jihadist terrorist offenders committing homicide: An explorative analysis using the European Database of Terrorist offenders

DL Alberda, N Duits, K van den Bos, A Autsema… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Although many studies have examined various aspects of terrorism, relatively little is known
about risk indicators associated with specific types of terrorist offences. To partly fill this void …

On the phenomenology of Islamic terrorist offenders

N Leygraf - Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie, 2014 - Springer
Very little reliable information is currently known about the individual background of terrorist
offences. The few empirical studies available are as a rule based on a consideration of the …

Psychopathology of terrorists

A Piccinni, D Marazziti, A Veltri - CNS spectrums, 2018 - cambridge.org
Terrorist behavior represents a subtype of human aggression probably determined by a
combination of biological, psychological, and social factors, as well as by peculiar …

The role of identity in committing acts of violent extremism-and in desisting from them

C Dean - Crim. Behav. & Mental Health, 2017 - HeinOnline
I write this editorial in the immediate aftermath of the tragic terrorist attack which took place in
Westminster, London. Considerable media and public attention is focused on such events …

Risk factors for terrorism: A comparison of family, childhood, and personality risk factors among Iraqi terrorists, murderers, and controls

S Dhumad, PJ Candilis, SD Cleary… - … sciences of terrorism …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Terrorism represents a major threat to global security; however, psychosocial risk factors for
terrorism are insufficiently explored in the literature. Using a cross-sectional design, we …

Behavioral problems and disorders among radicals in police files

AW Weenink - Perspectives on terrorism, 2015 - JSTOR
In this article we explore to what extent behavioral problems and disorders can be found in a
sample of radical Islamists that are known to the police in the Netherlands as actual or …

Understanding violent extremism: Socio-demographic, criminal and psychopathological background characteristics of detainees residing in Dutch terrorism wings

G Thijssen, E Masthoff, J Sijtsema… - … & Criminal Justice, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past decades, Europe has been shocked repeatedly by terrorist crimes. This has led to
an influx of suspects and convicts of terrorism in the prison system. The aim of this study is to …

Psychological distress and terrorist engagement: Measuring, correlating, and sequencing its onset with negative life events, social factors, and protective factors

E Corner, P Gill - Transcultural psychiatry, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article employs probability-based modelling to unpack the complex and multifaceted
individual, social, and psychological processes that may provide psychological protection for …