ArticleBMC medicine2012
A public health approach to understanding and preventing violent radicalization.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Public Mental Health Approaches to Online Radicalisation: An Empty Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Islamophobia, Health, and Public Health: A Systematic Literature Review.American journal of public health · 2018Pooled it
- Factors Influencing Radicalization Process at Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels: A Systematic Literature Review.Behavioral sciences & the lawPooled it
- PROTOCOL: Interventions Targeting Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation for Reducing and Countering Violent Extremism: A Systematic Review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Review
- Applying the Public Health Approach to Prevent Targeted Violence in the United States.Psychology of violence · 2026Article
- Conspiratorial misogyny and the radicalization continuum: male supremacy as a dominant ideology in contemporary extremism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Youth mental health and religiously framed radicalization in the Middle East and North Africa region: a review of evidence and gaps.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Leveraging an Arts-Based Approach to Foster Engagement, Nurture Kindness, and Prevent Violence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- What Prevention and Treatment of Substance Dependence Can Tell Us About Addressing Violent Extremism.Rand health quarterly · 2022Article
- Occurrence of Psychiatric Disorders, Self-Sufficiency Problems and Adverse Childhood Experiences in a Population Suspected of Violent Extremism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Not in Their Right Mind? Right-Wing Extremism Is Not a Mental Illness, but Still a Challenge for Psychiatry.Frontiers in sociology · 2022Article
- Cognitive and behavioral radicalization: A systematic review of the putative risk and protective factors.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Review
- Extremism and common mental illness: cross-sectional community survey of White British and Pakistani men and women living in England.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2020Article
- PROTOCOL: Cognitive and behavioral radicalization: A systematic review of the putative risk and protective factors.Campbell systematic reviews · 2020Article
- Moroccan Health Care: A Link to Radicalization and Proposed Solution.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2019Article
- Exploring the discrimination-radicalization nexus: empirical evidence from youth and young adults in Belgium.International journal of public health · 2019Article
- What should global mental health do about violent extremism?Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2019Article
- From social adversity to sympathy for violent radicalization: the role of depression, religiosity and social support.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2019Article
- And if there were another way out? Questioning the prevalent radicalization models.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundVery recent acts of terrorism in the UK were perpetrated by 'homegrown', well educated young people, rather than by foreign Islamist groups; consequently, a process of violent radicalization was proposed to explain how ordinary people were recruited and persuaded to sacrifice their lives. DISCUSSION: Counterterrorism approaches grounded in the criminal justice system have not prevented violent radicalization. Indeed there is some evidence that these approaches may have encouraged membership of radical groups by not recognizing Muslim communities as allies, citizens, victims of terrorism, and victims of discrimination, but only as suspect communities who were then further alienated. Informed by public health research and practice, a new approach is proposed to target populations vulnerable to recruitment, rather than rely only on research of well known terrorist groups and individual perpetrators of terrorist acts.
conclusionsThis paper proposes public health research and practice to guard against violent radicalization.
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