Publications

Study into measures to prevent terrorist attacks with vehicles and mitigate the impacts thereof

Rehabilitation programmes (including probation, exit and deradicalisation work) are at constant risk of crises. Rehabilitation work, like any other social intervention type, will never be able to guarantee a 100 % success rate. This risk concerns multiple levels.

In recent years, particularly since the 2019 live streamed attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, video games, gamer communities, and online platforms made for gaming and related activities, have moved to the center of attention of policy, practice, and academia working on preventing...

Humour has become a central weapon of extremist movements to subvert open societies and to lower the threshold towards violence. Especially within the context of a recent wave of far-right terrorist attacks, we witness “playful” ways in communicating racist ideologies.

In light of recent events such as the Christchurch attack, the Hanau shooting and the beheading of the teacher Samuel Paty near Paris, the threat of lone-actor violent extremism has grown within and outside the EU.

This paper will first describe what challenges have been discussed from different perspectives shared. In the second part, recommendations for both practitioners and policymakers are presented.

This paper summarises the discussion and recommendations on the role of mental health practitioners in DRR. This entails the differences between offenders and extremist offenders and the methods, approaches and therapy that have proven or were discussed as useful to other practitioners.

This small-scale meeting set out to increase understanding and further discuss the controversial topic of Involuntary Celibates, or Incels.

This paper presents the findings of the RAN PRISONS meeting on 10 December 2020, where practitioners involved in risk and needs assessment (RNA) in prisons met. This paper presents the main conclusions and insights of the discussions and provides some key recommendations.