Communities 2
Communities
Expressions of political practice: Collective angst moderates politicized collective identity to predict support for political protest (peaceful or violent) among diaspora group members
Abstract: In two studies, we examined an ethnic group (Tamil or Somali) at a key point in their history – when violent conflict rages in their homeland that will determine – …
Liking and hyperlinking: Community detection in online child exploitation networks
The ecology of trust among hackers
Abstract: Malicious hackers profit from the division of labour among highly skilled associates. However, duplicity and betrayal form an intrinsic part of their daily operations. This article examines how a – …
Martyrologie 2.0 ou la genèse d’une fabrique numérique des martyrs jihadistes
Résumé: Centre International de Criminologie Comparée (CICC), Université de MontréalCette contribution entend explorer le rôle des martyrs et des dispositifs martyrologiques comme ressource symbolique du mouvement jihadiste transnational (MJT). S’inspirant – …
Comment le jihadisme est-il devenu numérique ? Évolutions, tendances et ripostes,
Abstract: Twitter constitue un terrain de jeu de prédilection pour le groupe État islamique (EI) : espace de médiatisation, de revendication et de mobilisation. Depuis sa matrice de naissance afghane – …
Benefiting from Popular Culture through Education in Enhancing Social Cohesion
Abstract: Social cohesion has been one of the core concerns of various nations in the world. Globalization and international migration is making this concern increasingly paramount for many contemporary multicultural – …
‘Just Being Mean to Somebody Isn’t a Police Matter’: Police Perspectives on Policing Cyber-bullying
Abstract: Increasing public awareness of cyberbullying, coupled with several highly publicized youth suicides linked to electronic bullying, have led lawmakers and politicians to consider new criminal legislation specifically related to – …
Trust among Recent Immigrants in Canada: Levels, Origins, and Implications for Integration
Abstract: Generalised trust promotes social interactions and may well be a crucial component of immigrant integration. Recent immigrants in particular are likely to be viewed by themselves and others as – …
Usage du français et préférences politiques des néo-Québécois
Résumé Cette étude examine l’hypothèse qu’il existe un lien entre l’usage de la langue française chez les néo-Québécois et leurs relations aux communautés politiques québécoise et canadienne. L’étude examine séparément – …
Tendances violentes de la droite radicale au Canada: analyses chronologiques et facteurs d’influence
The lack of right-wing political parties at the national scale is, among other things, a reason why only a few studies have looked at the factors shaping farright violent incidents – …
Radicalism Leading to Violent Extremism in Canada: A Multi-Level Analysis of Muslim Community and University Based Student Leaders’ Perceptions and Experiences.
Recently, more than 150 Canadians have joined the Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East, causing alarm among both Canadian policy makers and the general citizenry. One of the most – …
White out: The invisibility of White North American culture and resilience processes
Most studies that explore how young people’s identification with their culture affects the resilience processes around them focus on visible minority youth. This leaves questions regarding how culture and cultural – …
Afterword: on denials, inclusions, exclusions and ambivalence
About the Book: Rituals, as universal modes of human action, are always evaluated and criticized. Humans seem to need rituals, but they also reject them. Criticism is an inevitable part – …
The Complex Ecology of Policing, Trust, and Community Partnerships in Counterterrorism
About the Book: The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 raise important questions concerning security, terrorism, and the – …
Political Demography of the New Security Environment
The Promise and Perils of Integrated Models of Public Safety in Canada
Youth resilience and culture: Commonalities and complexities
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume – …
Neighbourhood Effects on Fear of Crime in Canada
Fear of crime is a social problem with potentially serious consequences, including altering or restricting one’s behaviour. Changes to one’s routine for this purpose are known as constrained behaviours. Although – …
Just Our Ordinary Citizens? Toward a Comparative Portrait of the Political Immigrant
Since the 1960s, the number of immigrants living in liberal democracies has been steadily rising. Despite the existence of numerous studies on social, economic, and geographic integration, few books have – …
TSAS WP16-06: Teaching CVE: a review of the Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in Australia handbook, and challenges across policy and practice
(1) What are some of the key issues and challenges that emerged following the release of the Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in Australia (PVERA) handbook? (2) What lessons that – …
Planning for the Worst: Olympic Security and Precautionary Governance
Places for Races: The White Supremacist Movement Imagines U.S. Geography
Increasingly, scholars are acknowledging that racial and other forms of animus assume a spatial dimension. Not only does intercultural hostility take different forms depending on location, but so, too, does – …
Why bother? Death, Failure, and Fatalistic Withdrawal from life
Threat and defense: From Anxiety to Approach
The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability, or meaninglessness, and have developed separate theoretical – …
Muted neural response to distress among securely attached people
I’m OK, I’m OK: Praise Makes Narcissists with low Implicit self-esteem Indifferent to the Suffering of Others
In two experiments (Ns = 105 and 49) the most grandiose individuals with the lowest implicit self-esteem became particularly callous toward their suffering peers after receiving praise about their own – …
Neural Foundations of Meaning and Threat
Study 2 of 3: Comparisons of Radicalized and Non-Radicalized Federal Offenders
The identification of considerable differences between radicalized and non-radicalized offenders across a variety of areas suggests that the case management, supervision, and intervention strategies used for each group may need – …
Study 3 of 3: Estimating Susceptibility to Prison Radicalization
The ability to estimate which inmates may be more susceptible to radicalizing influences and potentially intervene with those individuals prior to them being exposed or converted to a radical ideology – …
Use of Programs and Interventions with Canada’s Federally Sentenced Radicalized Offenders
Community Development and Other Extra-Religious Functions of Islamic Schools: A Contemporary Perspective from the Voices of Stakeholders in Two Madrassas in Pakistan
Religion in Spaces of Social Disruption: Re-Reading the Public Transcript of Disaster Relief in Pakistan
Resilience as Protagonism: Interpersonal Relationships, Cultural Practices and Personal Agency among Working Adolescents in Brazil.
Ethnocultural factors, resilience, and school engagement
L’avantage libéral: Le vote des minorités visibles lors des élections québécoises de 2012
Minority Nations and Attitudes Toward Immigration. The Case of Quebec.
L’immigration: Une menace à la culture québécoise? Portrait et analyses des perceptions régionales
Planning for Major Events on Aboriginal Lands in Canada
Canadian Immigrant Electoral Support in a Comparative Perspective
Police «globalisée» et déploiements canadiens dans les operations de paix
Les opérations internationales de paix ont vu ces dernières décennies une augmentation marquée de contingents policiers, mieux connus sous le nom d’UNPOL. Cette police « globalisée » a pour mission – …
TSAS WP14-12: Perceptions of Muslim Faith, Ethno-Cultural Community-based and Student Organizations in Countering Domestic Terrorism in Canada
What are the perceptions of Muslim community based organizations and university student organization leaders on domestic terrorism and counter-terrorism in Canada and what are their suggestions to prevent radicalization and – …
TSAS WP14-10: Social Perspectives on National Security: A review of recent literature
This review was commissioned by TSAS to survey the ways in which academic researchers have been trying to understand the experiences of exclusion by marginalized youth, and how these might – …
Islamic Terrorism in the UK since 9/11: Reassessing the ‘Soft’ Response
The Imaginations of Humanitarian Assistance: A Machete to Counter the Crazy Forest of Varying Trajectories
The United Nations cited the 2010 monsoon floods in Pakistan as the largest humanitarian crisis in living memory. The environmental catastrophe effected twenty million people and highlighted the complicated relationship – …
TSAS WP14-06: (Mis)Understanding Muslim Converts in Canada: A Critical Discussion of Muslim Converts in the Contexts of Security and Society
This research seeks to understand the causes and processes of Islamic conversion in Canada through this initial study of Islamic conversion in Ontario. It attempts to contextualize Islamic conversion within – …
Home-Grown Islamist Radicalization in Canada: Using Survey Evidence to Model the Structure of Radical Attitudes
We designed a survey instrument to measure attitudes to issues widely believed to be relevant to radicalization and deployed it among Muslim communities in Ottawa. The results are remarkably inconsistent – …
Foreign Fighters in Syria
Over 12,000 fighters from at least 81 countries have joined the civil war in Syria, and the numbers continue to grow. Around 2,500 are from Western countries, including most members – …