Extremism and efforts to prevent and counter it have become a focal point of scholarship and policy and practice in recent years. Our research in this area spans an array of topic areas and has been funded by a range of organisations.
Some of the core areas of scholarship include research on:
- What constrains or protects against involvement in terrorism?
- How to evaluate and assess the impact of interventions designed to counter or prevent terrorism?
- What’s the relationships between protest and terrorism and political violence?
- How to divert people away from terrorism and harmful extremist spaces?
- What supports the reintegration of those convicted of terrorism offences?
- What are the lived experiences of contact with counter-terrorism policies and practices?
Academic Outputs
Busher, J., L. Malkki, and Marsden, S.V. (2023). The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation. Routledge.
Lewis, J., Marsden, S.V., Cherney, A., Zeuthen, M., Rahlf, L., Squires, C., Peterscheck, A. (2024). Case management interventions seeking to counter radicalisation to violence: a systematic review of tools and approaches. Campbell Systematic Reviews.
Lewis, J., Marsden, S.V., Cherney, A., Zeuthen, M., Bélanger, J. J., Zubareva, A., Brandsch, J. & Lubrano, M. (2023). PROTOCOL: Case management interventions seeking to counter radicalisation to violence: a systematic review of tools and approaches. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 19(1).
Marsden, S.V.,(2022) Disengagement and Deradicalisation Programmes. In Contemporary Terrorism Studies, edited by Diego Muro and Tim Wilson. Oxford University Press.
Marsden, S.V., (2018) Reintegrating Radicals: A Strengths-Based Approach to ‘Deradicalisation’. In Victims and Perpetrators of Terrorism: Exploring identities, roles and narratives, edited by Orla Lynch and Javier Argomaniz.
Marsden, S.V., (2017) Negotiating difference: Extremism, critical thinking and an ethics of care. In Education and Extremisms: Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World, edited by F. Panjawi et al., Routledge.
CREST Funded Projects
For more on the projects and outputs from our research on countering and preventing extremism, see the following links to projects on the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats website