In this section you can find literature about VERA-2R & Violent Extremism Risk Assesment. As stated, the literature described in this section is not exhaustive, but this will be expanded and updated.
- Alberda, D.L., Duits, N., van den Bos, K., Ybema, J.F., & Kempes, M. (2025). Motivations and extremist beliefs on individuals convicted of jihadist terrorist offenses: findings from the European Database of Terrorist Offenders.
Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.
- Beardsley, N. L. & Beech, A. R. (2013), Applying the violent extremist risk assessment (VERA) to a sample of terrorist case studies.
Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 5(1), 4–15.
- Belton, E., & Cherney, A. (2024). Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: The case of the VERA-2R.
Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 1-19.
- Clesle, A., Knäble, J., & Rettenberger, M. (2024). Risk and Threat Assessment Instruments for Violent Extremism: A Systematic Review. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 12(1), 1-22.
- Duits, N. & Kempes, M. (2023). Interrater and intra-rater reliability of the VERA-2R tool.
Front. Psychiatry 14:1236295.
- Thijssen, G., Masthoff, E., Sijtsema, J. & Bogaerts, S. (2023). Understanding violent extremism: Risk and protective factors in a jihadi male detainee population in the Netherlands.
European Journal of Criminology, 20(3), 973-995.
- Van Der Heide, L., Van Der Zwan, M. & Van Leyenhorst, M. (2019). The Practitioner’s Guide to the Galaxy – A Comparison of Risk Assessment Tools for Violent Extremism.
The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (ICCT) Evolutions in Counter-Terrorism, 1, 55-78.