Designing Rehabilitation and Reintegration Programmes for Violent Extremist Offenders: A Realist Approach

Summary

In 2010, the Director of National Intelligence assessed that an approximate 20% of former Guantanamo Bay detainees were suspected of reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities, a figure confirmed by the Obama administration . Elsewhere, similar concerns have been raised over recidivism rates among inmates with a terrorist or extremist background.3 Indeed, prisons are often seen as places where radical ideologies fester and where terrorist movements seek to recruit new members into their ranks.

Keywords

Rehabilitation Reintegration VE

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