PREVENTING RADICALIZATION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

On October 21, 2015 at the City Hall in Paris, under the auspices of the Embassy of Canada and in the Ambassador’s presence, the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) presented the preliminary findings of the first part of its study on the prevention of radicalization. [...] The prevention structure centres on concentric units: the individual, to strengthen his or her resistance to radical discourse; the individual’s relational environment, to counteract the sources of radicalization; the individual’s community, to identify negative influences; and the societal environment, to foster harmonious integration. [...] The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) even states that the current conflict raging in Syria and Iraq surpasses the 1980s conflict in Afghanistan in terms of the number of foreign fighters deployed (Neumann, 2015). [...] Examples include the Kreuger (2008) study in the United States and the work of Altunbas & Thornton (2011) in the United Kingdom, who compared a sample of the Muslim population to radicalized populations. [...] These opportunities relate to the nature of the offence, are place and time specific and depend on the routines of the likely victims and of the criminals (Felson & Clarke, 1998).