Decoding Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case (Elements in Forensic Linguistics)

By: Julia Kupper and Marie Bojsen-Møller and Tanya Karoli Christensen and Dakota Wing and Marcus Papadopulos and Sharon Smith

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781009495707
Related ISBNs:: 9781009495745, 9781009495745
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 12/12/24
Copyrighted By:: Julia Kupper, Marie Bojsen-Møller, Tanya Karoli Christensen, Dakota Wing, Marcus Papadopulos and Sharon Smith
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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