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Risky Business? Siege, subcultures, risk, and unintended consequences

This article provides an overview of a series of three CREST reports under the heading LARPocalypse.

LARPocalypse: Part One - Siege as a Subculture

Nicola Power, Mark Levine, Richard Philpot

The Psychology of Interoperability Animation

Rachel Monaghan, Bianca Slocombe, John Cuddihy, Neale Gregg

Prosecuting Extremists in the UK: An Exploration of Charging, Prosecution, and Sentencing Outcomes

Anastasia Kordoni, Shengnan Liu, Miriam Koschate-Reis, Mark Levine

Detecting Hybrid Social Identities: A Computational Analysis of Influence & Resilience in Online (RWE) Communities

Zoe Marchment, Paul Gill

How robust is the evidence base for the human ability to recognise suspicious activity/hostile reconnaissance?

Ben Lee, Sarah Marsden

LARPocalypse: Part Three - Subcultural Constraint

LARPocalypse: Part Two - Differential Participation in Siege Culture

James Lewis, James Hewitt, Sarah Marsden

Lived Experiences of Contact with Counter-Terrorism Policies and Practices

Rosie Mutton, James Lewis, Sarah Marsden

Public Mitigation of Terrorism Risk: A Rapid Review of the Literature

Rosie Mutton, James Lewis, Sarah Marsden

Online Radicalisation: A Rapid Review of the Literature

James Lewis, Sarah Marsden

Secondary Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Interventions: A Rapid Review of the Literature

Emily Winterbotham, Jessica White, Claudia Wallner, David McIlhatton

Evaluation Approaches for the Protection of Venues and Public Spaces from Terrorism

CREST Catalogue

Nicola Power, Jennifer Alcock, Mark Levine, Richard Philpot

The Psychology of Interoperability - Study One Summary

Alexandra Phelan, Jessica White, Claudia Wallner, James Paterson

Misogyny, Hostile Beliefs and the Transmission of Extremism: A Comparison of the Far-Right in the UK and Australia

Incel and the Incelosphere: An overview of current research and understanding

Lie detectors: body language tells us surprisingly little about whether someone is being honest

Ben Lee, Deanna Reder, Cameron Greig

Timeline: Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism in the UK

Report Poster Special

A data-driven analysis of incelosphere engagement by UK-based users

How worried should we be about incel-related violence?

Jonathan Kenyon

Exploring the role of the Internet in the radicalisation process and offending of convicted extremists

Alexandra Phelan, Jessica White, Claudia Wallner, James Paterson

Introductory Guide to Understanding Misogyny and the Far-Right

James Khalil, Martine Zeuthen, Sarah Marsden

A Guide to Deradicalisation & Disengagement Programming

Rebecca Stevens

Translating research

Kat Gibbs, Sophie Nightingale

Bias in Emerging Biometric Systems: A Scoping Review

Charis Rice, Martin Innes, Jenny Ratcliffe

Situational Threat And Response Signals (STARS): Public-Facing Counter-Terrorism Strategic Communication Campaigns [FULL LITERATURE REVIEW & SUMMARY BRIEFING]

Charis Rice, Martin Innes, Jenny Ratcliffe

The STARS Framework

Charis Rice, Martin Innes, Jenny Ratcliffe

Situational Threat And Response Signals (STARS): Public-facing Counter-Terrorism Strategic Communication Campaigns [SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS]

Sarah Marsden, Ben Lee

Conceptualising Protective Factors: Strengths-Based Approaches

James Hewitt, Ben Lee, Sarah Marsden

Protective Factors in Risk Assessment: Practitioner Perspectives

The role of closeness in the relationship between nonverbal mimicry and cooperation

Artificial Intelligence and Extremism: The Threat of Language Models for Propaganda Purposes

James Hewitt, James Lewis, Sarah Marsden

The Psychological Effects of Criminal Justice Measures: A Review of Evidence Related to Terrorist Offending

Kat Gibbs, Sophie Nightingale

AI In Recruitment: Is It Possible to Use it Responsibly?

Kat Gibbs, Sophie Nightingale

Multimodal biometrics: A better security system?

Lethal Subcultures

Ben Lee, Sarah Marsden

Protective Factors

John Blythe, Alan Gray, Francesca Willis, Emily Collins

Simulated Phishing And Employee Cybersecurity Behaviour (SPEC)

Sarah Marsden, Ben Lee

Protective Factors For Violent Extremism And Terrorism: Rapid Evidence Assessment

Siege Culture and Accelerationism in the UK

Noémie Bouhana

Are Conceptual Frameworks Of Radicalisation Leading To Involvement In Terrorism 'Observable'?

Joel Busher, Gareth Harris, Julia Ebner, Zsófia Hacsek, Graham Macklin

The escalation and inhibition of violence during waves of far-right or anti-minority protests

Joel Busher, Gareth Harris, Julia Ebner, Zsófia Hacsek, Graham Macklin

The Dynamics Of Violence Escalation And Inhibition During 'Hot Periods' Of Anti-Minority And Far-Right Activism

Erika Brady, Sarah Marsden

Women and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Interventions

Collecting And Leveraging Identity Cues With Keystroke Analysis (CLICKA)

A Short Introduction To The Involuntary Celibate Sub-Culture

Only Playing: Extreme-Right Gamification

Sarah Marsden, James Lewis

Trauma, Adversity, And Violent Extremism

John F. Morrison, Andrew Silke, Heidi Maiberg, Chloe Slay, Rebecca Stewart

A Systematic Review Of Post-2017 Research On Disengagement And Deradicalisation