A man has been shot dead by police following a terrorist attack in London on Sunday, February 2. The attacker is believed to be Sudesh Amman, who was released from prison one week ago where he was serving a sentence for terrorism offenses. Keep Reading
The team will create a relational database that includes event-level information on approximately 700-1,000 U.S.-based extremist plots since 1990. Keep Reading
Prison can mean a separation from the group and time for reflection, or fertile recruiting ground for extremists. Keep Reading
The demographics of the convicted terrorists studied were almost identical to the apolitical prison population in the U.S. Keep Reading
Popular opinion suggests that those convicted of terrorism related offenses are very likely to re-offend. But how accurate is this belief? One study on terrorism recidivism set out to investigate recidivism rates and questions the need for legislation like the TRACER Act. Keep Reading
This is not a phenomenon that emerged during the War on Terror, however. U.S. prisons had similar problems with white supremacists in the 1970s, as did the U.K. with Irish Republican Army members. Keep Reading