RT Book
T1 Decoding terrorism: an interdisciplinary approach to a lone-actor case
T2 Cambridge elements Elements in forensic linguistics
A1 Kupper, Julia
A2 Bojsen-Møller, Marie
A2 Christensen, Tanya 1974-
A2 Wing, Dakota
A2 Papadopulos, Marcus
A2 Smith, Sharon
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1912361396
AB 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.
CN 363.25/93170943
SN 9781009495738
K1 Terrorism investigation : Case studies : Germany : Halle an der Saale
K1 Forensic linguistics : Case studies
K1 Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) : Case studies
K1 Political manifestos : Case studies
K1 Antisemitic literature : Case studies
K1 Radicalization : Case studies
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781009495738