Evaluating Terrorist and Extremist Reintegration Programming: A Systematic Literature Review

This systematic literature review focuses on the evaluation of programs or interventions designed to deradicalize, disengage, rehabilitate, and/or reintegrate terrorists and/or extremists. Though a robust literature describing such interventions exists, it has long been recognized that more data are needed on the effectiveness of programs designed to facilitate reintegration. Thus, the objective of this review is to present an overview of academic and grey literature on the evaluation of programming designed to facilitate the deradicalization, disengagement, rehabilitation, and/or reintegration of terrorists and/or extremists. Our initial queries yielded 271 seemingly relevant peer-reviewed and grey literature articles, but after a more robust screening we determined that only 37 of those articles directly related to the evaluation of interventions. These articles are presented by evaluation design (e.g., quantitative, qualitative); we also review the evaluation mechanisms (e.g., survey, interviews, note review), study design (e.g., experimental, quasi-experimental), data types (i.e., quantitative or qualitative), and findings. Finally, we include ten articles discussing theory of program evaluation. Though the review is limited to available data (e.g., not including unpublished evaluations or government evaluations), we conclude by discussing the state of program evaluation relating to interventions designed to deradicalize, disengage, rehabilitate, and/or reintegrate terrorists and/or extremists, and offering several recommendations for how to improve evaluation methods and overcome barriers to evaluation..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Enthalten in:

Journal for Deradicalization - (2022), 32, Seite 35-75

Sprache:

Deutsch ; Englisch ; Französisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Megan K. McBride [VerfasserIn]
Marley Carroll [VerfasserIn]
Jessa Mellea [VerfasserIn]
Diána Hughes [VerfasserIn]
Elena Savoia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Deradicalization
Extremism
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Political science
Political science (General)
Reintegration
State of the art
Systematic literature review
Terrorism
Tertiary prevention

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ000832898