Published December 12, 2024 | Version v1
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"What Made Me Change": Transformative Experiences in the Jihadist Radicalization Process

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  • 2. ROR icon Universidad de Burgos
  • 3. ROR icon Guardia Civil
  • 4. Secretaría General de Instituciones Penitenciarias

Description

Disentangling the roots of radicalization leading to violence is a worldwide challenge. Unfortunately, empirical data are scarce. Through fieldwork conducting face-to-face interviews to Muslim inmates in Spanish prisons, this research examines transformative experiences that may have influenced radicalization leading to violence. Incarcerated convicts because of jihadist terrorism (n = 30), common criminals who carry out proselytizing work (n = 22), and non-radicals (control group, n = 64) were asked about the turning point in their lives. Their responses were coded into exclusive thematic categories following an inductive-deductive mixed approach. 

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1080/09546553.2024.2437048

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
What I learned being in prison. Deepen into the nature of identity fusion, physical and spiritual formidability, and its underlying associated mechanism PID2021-124617OB-I00
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
The motivational foundations and the challenges of social change: Gender, cultural and class perspectives for social transformation PID2021-126085OB-I00
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
10.13039/50110001103
European Commission
MULTIPREV - A Multi-Theory Multi-Method Approach for Preventing and Reducing Radicalization leading to Violence 101018172