1st Edition

Prisoner Radicalization and Terrorism Detention Policy Institutionalized Fear or Evidence-Based Policy Making?

By Tinka Veldhuis Copyright 2016
206 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Correctional policies for Islamist violent extremist offenders are often based on the premise that prisons can be hotbeds of radicalization. The perception that inmates are susceptible to violent extremist belief systems has given rise to a fervent international public, political, and scholarly debate and has led to the introduction of drastic, often expensive policies to counter the threat of... Read more

1. Prisoner Radicalization and Terrorism Detention Policy  Part I: The Making of Terrorism Detention Policy—The Terrorism Wing  2. Agenda Setting and Policy Preparation  3. The Terrorism Wing in Theory  Part II: Theoretical and Empirical Observations on Prisoner Radicalization  4. A Theory of Prisoner Radicalization  5. Terrorists in the Inmate Hierarchy  Part III: Terrorism Detention Policy in Practice—Implementation of the Terrorism Wing  6. The Target Population  7. The Prison Regime  Part IV: Captivated by Fear  8. Fear-Based Terrorism Detention Policy  9. A Realist Approach to Rehabilitation and Reintegration  10. General Conclusions and Discussion

Biography

Tinka M. Veldhuis is a researcher at the University of Groningen and a Research Fellow at the ICCT – The Hague, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the analysis and evaluation of counter-terrorism policy, in particular prison policies and rehabilitation and reintegration programs for violent extremist offenders.