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Record Nr.

UNISA996433049903316

Autore

Schuurman Bart

Titolo

Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist / Bart Schuurman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

90-485-3830-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Disciplina

940.5

Soggetti

Terrorists - Europe - History - 21st century

Terrorists - Netherlands - History - 21st century

Terrorism - Europe - History - 21st century

Terrorism - Netherlands - History - 21st century

Terrorism - Europe

Terrorism - Netherlands

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Leiden University, 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studying involvement in terrorism -- 3. A history of the Hofstadgroup -- 4. The ideological and organizational nature of the Hofstadgroup -- 5. Structural-level factors: Facilitating and motivating involvement -- 6. Group dynamics I: Initiating and sustaining involvement -- 7. Group dynamics II: Involvement in acts of terrorist violence -- 8. Individual-level analysis I: Cognitive explanations -- 9. Individual-level analysis II: Terrorists as psychologically distinctive -- 10. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for causing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004 and for plotting numerous other terrorist attacks. The Hofstadgroup offers a window into the broader phenomenon of homegrown jihadism that arose in Europe in 2004 and is still with us today. Utilizing interviews with former Hofstadgroup



participants and the extensive police files on the group, this book overcomes the scarcity of high-quality data that has beset the study of terrorism for decades. The book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism. It stresses that the factors that initiate involvement are separate from those that sustain it, which in turn are again likely to differ from those that bring some individuals to actual acts of terrorism.