In this section you can find literature about Violent Extremism and Terrorism. As stated, the literature described in this section is not exhaustive, but this will be expanded and updated.
- Dreams and disillusionment: Engagement in and disengagement from militant extremist groups; Bjørgo, T. (2011) Crime, Law and Social Change, 55(4), 277–285
- Radicalisation, De-Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation: A Conceptual Discussion and Literature Review; Schmid, A. (2013) Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies
- Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: Pathways Toward Terrorism; Clark McCauley & Sophia Moskalenko (2008) Terrorism and Political Violence, 20:3, 415-433
- Bombing Alone: Tracing the Motivations and Antecedent Behaviors of Lone-Actor Terrorists; Gill, P., Horgan, J., & Deckert, P. (2014) Journal of Forensic Sciences, 59(2), 425–435
- Understanding political radicalization: The two-pyramids model; McCauley, C., & Moskalenko, S. (2017) American Psychologist, 72(3), 205–216
- Studying Terrorism Empirically: What We Know About What We Don’t Know; Safer-Lichtenstein, A., LaFree, G., & Loughran, T. (2017) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 33(3), 273–291
- Lone Actor Terrorist Attack Planning and Preparation: A Data-Driven Analysis; Schuurman, B., Bakker, E., Gill, P., & Bouhana, N. (2018) Journal of Forensic Sciences, 63(4), 1191–1200
- Radicalization patterns and modes of attack planning and preparation among lone-actor terrorists: an exploratory analysis; Lasse Lindekilde, Francis O’Connor & Bart Schuurman (2019) Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 11:2, 113-133
- Terrorist Decision Making in the Context of Risk, Attack Planning, and Attack Commission; Gill, P., Marchment, Z., Corner, E., & Bouhana, N. (2020) Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 43(2), 145–160