to different groups and the governor of new york says that people convicted of hate crime, they have to undergo machine todayer to prevention. is there any way to know how effective the deradicalization programs and this training is? do we know? it is a two part problem. the first one there are monies available for people and i just spoke with several of my colleagues in the nonprofit space with these community members who said what can we do. specifically looking at houses of worship, how do we pardon it, how do we protect ourselves there so that we can gather in safety, which is a terrible thing to have to think about. these are houses of worship where people want to get some kind of relief or practice their religions. and we don t want to make these castles with armed guns. but the money and expertise is available. as far as the deradicalization, this is something that is still in its thnaisant stage.
"There is growing evidence across Europe that terrorist prisoners are successfully deceiving professionals concerning their rehabilitation." This was the finding of a recent study into incarcerated terrorists ability to deceive authorities as to the
Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism?
Punishment can radicalize and further alienate people, while social policy and grassroots community building can defuse potential violence.
January 22, 2021
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In response to law enforcement’s hands-off approach to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, some on the left have demanded harsher policing of right-wing extremism to match the often-brutal treatment of Black Lives Matter and leftist protest. That is, the very people who supported police reform or outright defunding over the summer seemed to want a crackdown. Skeptics of defunding were quick to point out the apparent contradiction, and they took the opportunity to dismiss the abolitionist position altogether. As the writer Matthew Yglesias mockingly tweeted, “Clearly the answer to yesterday’s failures is to defund the Capitol Police and instead hire a squad of social service providers to tackle the real root causes of the violence.�
to be no longer a threat to the general public. yeah. just to speak to the difficulties going forward when it comes to other radicals who are being sent back to various european countries, not just the uk. what happens with them? well, yes, exactly. and this is the big challenge. there are deradicalization programs which i think are still in a very, very good degree of immaturi immaturity. these individuals, we ve got to remember, they re unlike other criminals, although in many regards most of the terrorists that have been subsequently apprehended or neutralized as yesterday did have some involvement in criminality to some degree. but it s about their motivations, now, the problem that we face, with these individuals, the british nationals, they have to be treated there has to be a massive takeup in this country because this countproblem is goo
uk, but across europe and potentially north america, too. i was going to ask you that, that it s going to color the debate in those already in custody and when you ve got a situation where even those who have gone through the system and are slipping through the cracks, it speaks to the challenge of those not yet sent home to european countries. and this huge question mark as to whether rehabilitation/deradicalization actually works. countries like saudi arabia have deradicalization programs, but there are a significant number of people who graduate from those programs reoffend. if some of them ended up forming and creating al qaeda in the peninsula in yemen. so these approaches may sound good, they get a lot of funding,