Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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The proposed seminar series builds on the experience of the co-investigators in organising the ESRC Research Seminar Series on Right Wing Extremism in Europe (2014-2015). It arises from the recognition of the potential b...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
The project focuses on youth engagement in radicalism and extremism across ideological and religious contexts, which is directly related to the question.
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in extremism, though mainly al-Qaeda or 'AQ'-inspired terrorism. This emphasis on preventing violent extremism (PVE), and countering processes of radicalization within Musl...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham
The project addresses the gap in understanding and policy response to right-wing extremism, which is partially relevant to the question.
This study aims to assess Western policy responses to the threat of global jihadi ideology, and to develop a suitable methodology for making them more effective. Since 9/11, the ideological threat from global jihadism...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
The project aims to develop a suitable methodology for making Western policy responses to global jihadi ideology more effective, which is partially relevant to the question.