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Incel Terrorism

Finding the haystack before searching it

Type
Research Paper
Year
2021
Domain
Counterterrorism
Author
Andrew Azadan

The claim

Incel violence evades detection methods built for group terrorism, because the drivers are psychology and environment rather than affiliation.

Counterterrorism effort concentrates on right-wing and jihadi threats, both of which leave organizational signatures. The paper argues incel terrorism does not: it depends on the psychology of an individual and the environment that individual sits in, which makes it unusually hard to anticipate.

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