Heavy-handed institutional deradicalization often backfires by deepening radicalization
Evidence
Heavy-handed attempts by formal institutions to deradicalize individuals often fail. Such measures taken by intelligence and law enforcement agencies are understandable because of the need to protect the public but can sometimes deepen ongoing radicalization processes and push potentially salvageable cases to more-extreme behaviors and involvement. — 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, 72
Categorization
- XREF: Comment on the withdrawal-of-conflict hypothesis: confirms that confrontational/punitive state intervention worsens rather than resolves adversarial identity, central to the reader’s test. — connects to: Heavy-handed state intervention and stigmatization deepen rather than halt radicalization — 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:…, 579; Totalitarian radicalization accelerates with war and defeat rather than being checked by them — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 925; Economic retrenchment produced defensive embourgeoisement rather than further radicalization — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 140
Broader Connections
- Heavy-handed state intervention and stigmatization deepen rather than halt radicalization
#corroborates(0.95) — 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, 579 - Economic retrenchment produced defensive embourgeoisement rather than further radicalization
#exemplifies(0.74) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 140 - Totalitarian radicalization accelerates with war and defeat rather than being checked by them
#corroborates(0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 925