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Deradicalization: A Review of the Literature with Comparison to Findings in the Literatures on Deganging and Deprogramming
Deradicalization: A Review of the Literature with Comparison to Findings in the Literatures on Deganging and Deprogramming
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 04, 2012
ANNOTATION: “This research brief reviews the literature on deradicalization and evaluates the methodology of deradicalization programs, based on the research identifying individual motivations for entering and exiting terrorist organizations, providing comparison with relevant findings in the literatures on “deprogramming” of cult members and “deganging” (p. 1). This literature review begins with a discussion of the affiliative factors contributing to a person’s radicalization at the mass, group, and individual levels. Ideology does not seem to be “the” or possibly even “a” primary factor. The study continues with reasons for exiting, factors that may inhibit leaving an extremist group, and deradicalization efforts. Following these sections is a look at gangs and cults. It appears that deradicalization, deganging, and deprogramming efforts are not overly effective because they do not address the central affiliative factors important to the individual.
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