Adjusting your lens: Thinking about extremist risk Dr Leanne Gregory, Senior Clinical Psychologist, CYCJ Associate IVY Conference, Glasgow, December 3.

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Adjusting your lens: Thinking about extremist risk Dr Leanne Gregory, Senior Clinical Psychologist, CYCJ Associate IVY Conference, Glasgow, December 3 rd and 4 th 2015

Conceptualisation Context Challenges Lessons from the Literature Risk AssessmentLearning Points

TypeObjectiveExample Criminal TerrorismFurther Criminal Goals Narcoterrorists assassinate legal officials Political Terrorism – State – State turns on own Further political agenda, change Argentina “bloody wars”; Sadam Hussain’s regime; Libya Political Terrorism – Sub state – Social revolution Overthrow prevailing, usually capitalist, order Red Army; Weather Underground; extreme environmentalists Political Terrorism – Substrate – National Separatist Response to social injustice IRA; ETA Religious TerrorismFurther religious endsAl-Queda; ISIS

Contest (Home Office, 2011) Protect: strengthen national protection against terrorist attacks in the UK or against UK interests overseas Prevent: prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and to work across sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation Pursue: detect threats at earliest stage, disrupt activity before it can endanger the public, prosecute those responsible Prepare: seeks to mitigate the impact of a terrorist attack in the event that it cannot be stopped ROBUST RISK ASSESSMENT IS NEEDED TO SUCCESSFULLY FULFIL PREVENT’S BRIEF

CHALLENGES THIS IS WHERE WE ARE OPERATING

What am I supposed to do about this?!? SERIOUSNESS + GROWING FREQUENCY + CHALLENGES TO RISK ASSESSMENT + OUR OWN FEELINGS & BIASES + INFANT LITERATURE + + =

ANXIETY THINKING SKILLS

“…many terrorisms exist, and their character has changed over time and from country to country. The endeavour to find a “general theory” of terrorism, one overall explanation of its roots, is a futile and misguided enterprise…” Lacquer (2003)

LESSONS FROM THE LITERATURE Mental illness is not a critical factor explaining VE behaviour. Most terrorists are not psychopaths. There is no such things as a terrorist personality. “…most serious researchers in the field at least nominally agree with the position that terrorists are essentially normal individuals” (Silke, 1998). Childhood maltreatment is common in the biographies of terrorist. Perceived injustice/humiliation are important themes. Need for identity and belonging are common vulnerabilities. Motives are hugely varied and not stable over time. Individual risk cannot be divorced from the context of the in-group, and the political context of the time. Becoming a terrorist is rarely a conscious decision – social process. Opportunity is an important factor. Know little about recruitment. Seems geared towards deprived and dissatisfied. Role of culture is poorly understood, as are operations, and behaviour in the group. Terrorists have different roles and become terrorists via differing pathways and for different reasons. In understanding risk, it might be helpful to distinguish between the reasons for joining, remaining in, and leaving group.

BackgroundRisk FactorsFormulationScenariosManagementCommunication STRUCTURED PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT RISK ASSESSMENT

IdeologyCapabilityAffiliations Political and Social Environment Disengagement Factors Emotional Factors EXTREMIST RISK ASSESSMENT Silke (2014)

Extremism Risk Guidance 22 + (ERG22+) (Rehabilitation Services Group, 2011) Violent Extremist Risk Assessment (VERA-2) (Pressman & Flockton, 2010, 2012a) Risk Factors

IdeologyCapabilityAffiliations Political and Social Environment Disengagement Factors Emotional Factors EXTREMIST RISK ASSESSMENT

Emotional Factors Disengagement Factors STRUCTURED ASSESSMENT VIOLENCE RISK IN YOUTH (SAVRY)

Ideology Emotional Factors CapabilityAffiliationsCapabilityIdeology Disengagement Factors VIOLENT EXTREMISM RISK ASSESSMENT (VERA)

LEARNING POINTS Terrorists are a highly, highly idiosyncratic group. There is no single pathway into terrorism. The empirical evidence regarding risk assessment of violent extremism is in its infancy, with no validated tools available. As such, methods are limited but there is promise. Case by base highly individualised risk assessment is required. Cognisance of in-group is important, as is acknowledgement of socio-political context. We need to look to the literature, teach ourselves. SPJ paradigm can tolerate the demands of the assessment. VERA, and other VE sensitive tools are a welcome addition to risk assessment methodologies. We need to consult with experts in a particular terrorist movement. Given the breadth of information needed to capture the risk domains, multiagency working and information sharing is key. This is anxiety provoking. Help yourself to think, liaise with your colleagues, get supervision, work jointly.