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                                    Where Can I Find Information About Extremist and Radicalized Groups In Prisons?

      

                    
          
    Where can I find information about extremist and radicalized groups in prisons?
Countering Violent Extremism, Part 1 (video)**C-SPAN, 2017**Countering Violent Extremism, Part 2 (video)**CSPAN, 2017**Combating Violent Extremism, Part 3 (video)**C-SPAN, 2017**Countering Violent Extremism in Prisons Program**Global Center on Cooperative Security, 2017**6 strategies for preventing radicalization in US jails and prisons**Atherton, Eugene, 2017**Having a comprehensive, written policy is very important in managing inmates who wish to radicalize others towards terrorist behaviorFirst UN manual to address violent extremism in prisons launched by UNODC**United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2017**Handbook on the Management of Violent Extremist Prisoners and the Prevention of Radicalization to Violence in Prisons**United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2016**Terror Inmates: Countering Violent Extremism in Prison and Beyond**Statement of Jerome P. Bjelopera, Specialist in Organized Crime and Terrorism before Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, U.S. House of Representatives, 2015**Violent Extremism and Its Roots in the U.S. Corrections System**Winters, Robert, 2015**Community-Level Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism [Video]**National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2016**Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Behavior and Radicalization Across Three Offender Types with Implications for Criminal Justice**Horgan, John G., et al., 2016**Violent Extremism and Its Roots in the U.S. Corrections System**Winters, Robert, 2015**Radicalization and Violent Extremism: Lessons Learned from Canada, the U.K. and the U.S.**National Institute of Justice (NIJ), 2015**Are Prisons Really Schools for Terrorism? Challenging the Rhetoric on Prison Radicalization**Jones, Clarke R., 2014**"This article challenges contemporary research on prison radicalization and recruitment by highlighting several factors that may hamper these activities to demonstrate why some prison regimes and their programmes for housing terrorist inmates face a greater risk than others."Document ID: 031360Facts and Fictions about Islam in Prison: Assessing Prisoner Radicalization in Post-9/11 America**Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), 2013**"This report explains how violence due to prison radicalization by Muslims is a rare event."Document ID: 028460
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