From Profiles to Pathways and Roots to Routes: Perspectives from Psychology on Radicalization into Terrorism

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Radicalization to Violence: A Pathway Approach to Studying Extremism (2020, background): “In response, radicalization scholars have suggested that the phenomenon of extremism be treated as a set of complex causal processes in which multiple factors work together to produce extremist outcomes.(4) However, efforts to advance empirical research in this direction have been hampered by three ”
Social interaction and psychological pathways to political engagement and extremism (2014, background): “The research shows that radicalization can be understood as a reproducible social process or pathway (Horgan, 2008) and not as a product of specific social conditions in certain societies or religious groups, nor an aspect of psychopathology (Silke, 1998).”
CORRELATES OF VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES (2018, background): “Third, although many theories of radicalization (Borum, 2011; Horgan, 2008; McCauley and Moskalenko, 2011; Neumann, 2013) conceptualize it as the culmination of multiple, dynamic pathways, our data do not allow for us to measure with precision the temporal ordering of the variables we include.”
A Field-Wide Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Putative Risk and Protective Factors for Radicalization Outcomes (2019, background): “Over the years, researchers and policy makers have focused on elements such as profiles, root causes, routes, and pathways (Horgan 2008).”