Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1800081995 ISBN 13: 9781800081994

Publisher: UCL Press, 2024

Synopsis

A practical study of the prevention of violent extremism.

Violent extremism has galvanized public fear and attention. Driven by their concerns, the public has pushed for law enforcement and mental health systems to prevent attacks rather than just respond to them after they occur. The prevention process requires guidance for practitioners and policymakers on how best to identify people who may be at risk, to understand and assess the nature and function of the harm they may cause, and to manage them to mitigate or prevent harm. Violent Extremism provides such guidance.

Over ten chapters, prepared by leading experts, this handbook illuminates the nature of violent extremism and the evolution of prevention-driven practice. Authors draw on the literature and their experience to explain which factors might increase (risk factors) or decrease (protective factors) risk, how those factors might operate, and how practitioners can prepare risk formulations and scenario plans that inform risk management strategies to prevent violent extremist harm.

Each chapter is crafted to support thoughtful, evidence-based practice that is transparent, accountable, and ultimately defensible. Written for an international audience, the volume will be of interest to law enforcement and mental health professionals, criminal justice and security personnel, as well as criminologists, policymakers, and researchers.
 

About this title

About the Authors

Caroline Logan is lead consultant forensic clinical psychologist in the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester in England.

Randy Borum is director of the School of Information (iSchool) and director of intelligence and national security studies at the University of South Florida.

Paul Gill is professor of security and crime science at UCL.

Edition details

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800081995
• ISBN 13: 9781800081994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Logan Caroline, Borum Randy, Gill Paul