Decoding Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case - Brossura

Kupper, Julia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1009495720 ISBN 13: 9781009495721

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Riassunto

This Element is an interdisciplinary analysis of the language evidence produced before, during and following a lone-actor terrorism attack in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2019, resulting in two casualties. During his final preparations, the perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Stephan Balliet, announced his attack online and disseminated a targeted violence manifesto shortly before live-streaming his violent act. This post-hoc investigation introduces a multi-method approach that synchronizes well-established qualitative methodologies for forensic text analysis – genre, text linguistics, appraisal and uptake – to elucidate these data types. Furthermore, a retroactive threat assessment based on language data from the trial transcripts provides a holistic review of the assailant's background, red flags, triggering events and warning behaviors that could have signaled his movements along the pathway to violence. The results are considered in an organizational context to highlight current challenges faced by security agencies when mitigating the risk of lone-actors who radicalize in online environments.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1009495720
• ISBN 13: 9781009495721
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 94
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Germania