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Prisons and the Education of Terrorists

Ian M. Cuthbertson, June 2017

Summary

Prison reformers have long been aware that the cellblock is a school for criminals, the shadow campus where the petty offender graduates into organized crime. Yet strangely, the same insight has for the most part eluded jail keepers in countries now targeted by Islamic terrorists. The usefulness of prisons as universities for terrorists, however, has not escaped Islamic radicals.

Keywords

Education Terrorism

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Theme
Education
Type
Publication
Format
Adobe PDF
Published
21 June 2017
Author
Ian M. Cuthbertson
Access
Open access

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