RT Article
T1 Hard to reach or don’t want to reach? Understanding the significance of trust and respectful relationships in “countering violent extremism”
JF Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
VO 20
IS 2
SP 165
OP 189
A1 Jones, Clarke
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1810015049
AB Contemporary research shows that programs developed specifically to counter violent extremism (CVE) in Muslim communities can worsen the underlying issues linked to offending. This can be destructive to the young individuals those programs target and undermine social cohesion. An impediment to CVE programs is that Muslim youth are often reluctant to participate in them. Through four years of ethnographic research with Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’ah Association of Australia (ASWJ), a so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ Salafi Muslim organization, this paper helps build greater awareness of factors leading to poor responsivity in CVE programs. I propose alternative approaches to CVE that begin by focusing on trust and relationship-building to better understand how to support communities dealing with youth at-risk of offending.
K1 hard-to-reach communities
K1 Participant Observation
K1 Ethnography
K1 trust building
K1 youth interventions
K1 Countering Violent Extremism
K1 community engagement
DO 10.1080/15377938.2022.2092244