A background in 'ordinary'crime, violence and drug use seems to characterize many
European individuals recently involved in ISIS-related jihadi violence. With its long tradition …

The prevalence of criminal backgrounds amongst European jihadists is remarkable.
Whether amongst 'foreign fighters' that have travelled to Syria and Iraq, or amongst those …

Most of Pierre Bourdieu's work describes struggles over symbolic capital and hierarchies
among the economic and cultural elite. However, his theories and concepts are not …

Many studies have examined why individuals with a background in street life and crime are
drawn toward extremism. This paper examines why most people with this background reject …

This article explores the melting pot of jihadists and criminals that has featured in some of
the most significant jihadist attacks and plots foiled in Spain over the last 15 years. Applying …

The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. His theoretical
framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and …

Bourdieu's key conceptual tools, including the forms of capital and habitus, have recently
come to be deployed with greater frequency in criminological research. Less attention has …

Abstract Cottee (Br J Criminol 54 (6): 981–1001, 2014) makes the case that criminology has
much to contribute to an understanding of theistic violence. However the 'hubris of …

How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book
addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for …

My aim in this article is to extend Marc Sageman's seminal research on Al Qaeda by re-
articulating it through the prism of Albert Cohen's theory of delinquent subcultures, an …