The Politics of Attack: Communiqués and Insurrectionary Violence

Kettler, Andrew

doi:10.14321/jstudradi.14.2.0198

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“…Data for this study come from communiqués written by REM extremists claiming responsibility for arson against individuals, corporations, or institutions perceived as contributing to the suffering of animals or the destruction of the environment. 2 More specifically, communiqués refer to texts written by anonymous individuals employing illegal action for ideological purposes (Liddick 2013;Loadenthal 2017a;Logan and Hall 2019). Communiqués serve as a means of "credit-claiming" and provide detailed information about an attack, including motivational factors, details about the operation, and a description of damage caused.…”

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“…It is vital for radical environmentalists to share this information via communiqués, or the incident may go undetected thereby undermining the intended goals of the movement (Brown 2020). Loadenthal (2017a) best summarizes the significance of communiqués by arguing that "a strike without explanation is akin to telling a joke without a punch line" (p. 260). Since destruction perpetrated by REM extremists is performative, in the sense that it serves as a symbolic message to their target audience, communiqués ensure the audience understands the event through its intended frame.…”

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Radicalized Environmental Extremism and Situational Decision Making

Barnum

Logan

2023

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objective: In this study, we investigate extremists’ appraisals of and sensitivity to perceived sanction risk during the commission of arson. We pay specific attention to the decision-making processes of extremists leading up to and during the offending opportunity. Methods: We examined data collected from self-reported communiqués ( n = 275) describing acts of arson committed by radical environmental extremists. Results: We found that extremists, like other criminals, are sensitive to situational factors that affect the certainty of apprehension. Additionally, extremists work to reduce the risk of detection by engaging in crime-specific risk management techniques prior to and during the offending opportunity. Conclusions: Analysis of the communiqués is consistent with recent works on extremism, situational crime prevention, and restrictive deterrence. We discuss our findings in the context of rational choice and situational crime prevention theory and the advancement of preventative policies aimed at ideological and political crime.

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confidence: 99%