About a quarter of contacted extremists refused or avoided interviews on deradicalization

Evidence

Recruitment efforts with two refusals for participation and one no-show resulted in a 73 percent response rate, in which 36 interviews were completed (see Chapter Four for a detailed description of the sample). — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 233