Domestic radicalization is primarily psychological and emotional, not material
Evidence
Indeed, PIRUS data illustrate that “radicalization to violence is primarily psychological and emotional, rather than material.” Although material factors are rarely the main drivers of radicalization in the United States, some studies suggest that they can still contribute to radicalization when combined with other factors, described above. — 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, 151
Categorization
- XREF: Overturns conventional wisdom that poverty drives radicalization; supports the psychological-mechanism reading central to the reader’s hypothesis test. — connects to: Frustrated identity needs have never been shown to precede rather than follow radicalization — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 253; Mental health problems create radicalization vulnerability only by blocking other life opportunities — 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:…, 285; Perceived exclusion and injustice prime society-wide breeding grounds for radicalization — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 716 (+2 more)
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Broader Connections
- Frustrated identity needs have never been shown to precede rather than follow radicalization
#contradicts(0.80) — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 253 - Perceived exclusion and injustice prime society-wide breeding grounds for radicalization
#contradicts(0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 716 - Mental health problems create radicalization vulnerability only by blocking other life opportunities
#qualifies(0.72) — 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, 285