Radykalizacja jako kategoria analityczna w profilowaniu terrorystów
Radicalization as an analytic category in profiling terrorists

Summary/Abstract: The issue of radicalism and radicalization is an important area of investigation of contemporary social science. The most important research issues include questions about the process of acquisition of extremist beliefs and methods of recruitment and indoctrination of terrorist groups. The most difficult questions about the turning points in the biography of potential terrorists would be available observations and under what circumstances it would be possible to take preventive measures. Another research question would apply to determine whether the processes of radicalization in the case of groups of the extreme left, extreme right-wing, religious fundamentalists are the same or are they different. Finally, what is the difference between radicalization of terrorist groups and radicalized terrorists acting alone. Such studies would be useful from the point of view of security policy, prevention, prevention of attacks to neutralize terrorist groups. If it was possible to accurate profiling environments where radicalization processes occur, could also deal with these processes and to prevent the emergence of terrorist organizational structures. Such possibility would give into the hands of rulers, and special services extremely powerful weapon and may convert modern democracies into dystopian surveillance states.

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