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Routes into 'Islamic' terrorism: dead ends and spaghetti junctions. (2007)
Journal Article
VERTIGANS, S. 2007. Routes into Islamic' terrorism: dead ends and spaghetti junctions. Policing [online], 1(4), pages 447-459. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pam054

Explanations for the development of groups associated with terrorism generally and 'Islamic' terrorism, in particular, tend to concentrate upon materialism and forms of brainwashing. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, the uneducated poor... Read More about Routes into 'Islamic' terrorism: dead ends and spaghetti junctions..

Beyond the fringe? Radicalisation within the American far-right. (2007)
Journal Article
VERTIGANS, S. 2007. Beyond the fringe? Radicalisation within the American far-right. Totalitarian movements and political religions [online], 8(3-4), pages 641-659. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14690760701571254

The concentration within America upon terrorism and Muslims overlooks recent acts of political violence undertaken by the indigenous extreme far-right. In this article the rise of the militia and Christian Identity movement in America is explored and... Read More about Beyond the fringe? Radicalisation within the American far-right..

Militant Islam and Weber's social closure: interrelated secular and religious codes of exclusion. (2007)
Journal Article
VERTIGANS, S. 2007. Militant Islam and Weber's social closure: interrelated secular and religious codes of exclusion. Contemporary Islam [online], 1(3), pages 303-321. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-007-0027-6

Weber's concept of social closure can help to illuminate the social processes that result in the development of militant Muslim groups. Adapting and applying the concept helps to establish the interrelationships between secular processes and Islamifi... Read More about Militant Islam and Weber's social closure: interrelated secular and religious codes of exclusion..

The role of anti-terror measures in the development of 'Islamic' terrorism. (2006)
Journal Article
VERTIGANS, S. and SUTTON, P. 2006. The role of anti-terror measures in the development of 'Islamic' terrorism. International journal of the humanities: annual review [online], 4(4), pages 87-94. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v04i04/41883

Post-September 11th 2001, academic attention on 'Islamic' terrorism is increasingly concentrating upon national and global security, political instability within majority-Muslim nation-states and perceived civilizational conflict between religio-cult... Read More about The role of anti-terror measures in the development of 'Islamic' terrorism..

Islamic 'new social movements'? (2006)
Journal Article
SUTTON, P. and VERTIGANS, S. 2006. Islamic 'new social movements'? Radical Islam, Al-Qa'ida and social movement theory. Mobilization: an international quarterly [online], 11(1), pages 101-115. Available from: http://mobilizationjournal.org/doi/abs/10.17813/maiq.11.1.h072u0r458458426

European new social movement (NSM) theory was developed to describe and explain the apparently unique character of the wave of collective action that began in the 1960s and continues to this day. Key characteristics of NSM theory are a post-industria... Read More about Islamic 'new social movements'?.

Social barriers to peace: socialisation processes in the radicalisation of the Palestinian struggle. (2004)
Journal Article
VERTIGANS, S. 2004. Social barriers to peace: socialisation processes in the radicalisation of the Palestinian struggle. Sociological research online [online], 9(3), pages 1-6. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.967

Contemporary analysis of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians tends to focus upon Islamic terrorism and Israeli state aggression. Representations and analysis are dominated by media images of terrorist/freedom fighters atrocities and mili... Read More about Social barriers to peace: socialisation processes in the radicalisation of the Palestinian struggle..

Confessions: consensus in idem? (2002)
Journal Article
TAYLOR, L.J. and HENDERSON, S.E. 2002. Confessions: consensus in idem? Scots law times [online], 2002(40), pages 325-327. Available from: https://uk.westlaw.com

Examines the law on extra judicial confessions and their admissibility from the point of view of forensic psychology. Discusses the contextual background and identifies three types of false confessions described as voluntary, coerced compliant and co... Read More about Confessions: consensus in idem?.