Abstract
This paper examines the link between attitudes, the acceptance of violence and the performance of extremist acts. It is tested, if different ideologies of extremism develop commonalities in their positions, attitudes and structures. Data from a school survey of more than 6,700 9th grade students from Germany serves as the empirical basis. The results show among other things that different extremist ideologies (right-wing, left-wing, Islamism) covary on the level of attitudes, acceptance of violence and extremist behavior. In a further step of analysis, the theoretically based paths of initially extremist attitudes, then an additional approval of violence and finally the commission of extremist acts was examined approximately in a person-oriented approach. Except for one path, the analyses of radicalization patterns confirm a model that commences on the cognitive level, followed by the acceptance of deviant means to reach ideological goals and finally leading to extremist acts.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Extremism, Radicalization and Terrorism: Editorial
- Micro and macro-level risk factors for extremism and terrorism: Toward a criminology of extremist violence
- Perceived injustice, perceived group threat and self-reported right-wing violence: An integrated approach
- Does context matter? European-specific risk factors for radicalization
- Pathways to radicalization in adolescence: The development of ideological beliefs, acceptance of violence, and extremist behavior
- Left-wing extremist violence: Risk and protective factors in a targeted sample of potential extremists
- Radicalization potentials of young Muslims in prison: What role do religious factors play?
- The families of Dutch terrorist suspects: Risk and protective factors among parents and siblings
- Psychological Differences between Radicalized and non-Radicalized Muslim Prisoners: A Qualitative Analysis of their Frame Alignment
- Concept of and approaches toward a developmental prevention of radicalization: Promising strategies to keep young people away from political, religious, and other forms of extremism
- The Phoenix Model of Disengagement and Deradicalisation from Terrorism and Violent Extremism
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Extremism, Radicalization and Terrorism: Editorial
- Micro and macro-level risk factors for extremism and terrorism: Toward a criminology of extremist violence
- Perceived injustice, perceived group threat and self-reported right-wing violence: An integrated approach
- Does context matter? European-specific risk factors for radicalization
- Pathways to radicalization in adolescence: The development of ideological beliefs, acceptance of violence, and extremist behavior
- Left-wing extremist violence: Risk and protective factors in a targeted sample of potential extremists
- Radicalization potentials of young Muslims in prison: What role do religious factors play?
- The families of Dutch terrorist suspects: Risk and protective factors among parents and siblings
- Psychological Differences between Radicalized and non-Radicalized Muslim Prisoners: A Qualitative Analysis of their Frame Alignment
- Concept of and approaches toward a developmental prevention of radicalization: Promising strategies to keep young people away from political, religious, and other forms of extremism
- The Phoenix Model of Disengagement and Deradicalisation from Terrorism and Violent Extremism