Decoding Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case

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Julia Kupper (Independent Researcher) Marie Bojsen-Møller (University of Copenhagen)

Decoding Terrorism

An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case

Julia Kupper (Independent Researcher), Marie Bojsen-Møller (University of Copenhagen), Tanya Karoli Christensen (University of Copenhagen) , Dakota Wing (York University)

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Cambridge University Press
12 December 2024

Psycholinguistics; Forensic science; Criminal or forensic psychology; Fascism & Nazism; Terrorism, armed struggle

Series: Elements in Forensic Linguistics

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.

By: Julia Kupper (Independent Researcher), Marie Bojsen-Møller (University of Copenhagen), Tanya Karoli Christensen (University of Copenhagen), Dakota Wing (York University), Marcus Papadopulos
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009495745
ISBN 10: 1009495747
Series: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
Pages: 94
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue: online radicalization; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Rhetorical genre analysis; 4. Text linguistic analysis; 5. Stance analysis; 6. Retrospective threat assessment; 7. Lone-actor investigative challenges; 8. Contagion and copycat uptakes; Discussion; References.