No rigorous evidence yet evaluates deradicalization interventions
Evidence
There is currently a lack of rigorous evidence evaluating interventions for preventing radicalization or promoting deradicalization. Nonetheless, there are organizations working to identify individuals at risk of extremism and working to assist community members. — 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, 48
Categorization
- QUESTION: Gap statement — motivates exactly the hypothesis-test this reader is pursuing; worth keeping as a research-orientation anchor.
- XREF: connects to: Researchers borrowed the suicide psychological autopsy method to study deradicalization — 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:…, 30; This study generates rather than tests hypotheses about deradicalization.