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Series:   Elements in Forensic Linguistics

Decoding Terrorism

An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2024

Julia Kupper ,
Marie Bojsen-Møller ,
Tanya Karoli Christensen ,
Dakota Wing ,
Marcus Papadopulos  and
Sharon Smith
Julia Kupper
Affiliation:
Independent Researcher
Marie Bojsen-Møller
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Tanya Karoli Christensen
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Dakota Wing
Affiliation:
York University

Summary

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.
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forensic linguisticsthreat assessmentlanguage evidencefar-right terrorismtargeted violence manifesto
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Series: Elements in Forensic Linguistics
Online ISBN: 9781009495738
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 12 December 2024

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