Anders Behring Breivik, a lone wolf terrorist, killed 77 people in two terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011. This study uses framing theory from social movement studies to compare his Manifesto with ...the rhetoric of the anti-Islamic movement that inspired him. The anti-Islamic movement has a dual, and sometimes inconsistent, collective action framing. On the one hand, they portray Islam as an existential threat to the West and a warlike enemy; on the other, they promote peaceful and democratic opposition. The potential for radicalization is thus immanent. This case study reveals the importance of seeing lone wolf terrorists as acting from rhetoric embedded in larger social movements. It further demonstrates, in detail, the subtle and complex ways in which political narratives rejecting terrorism and political violence still end up inspiring such acts.
Lone-wolf terrorism is a threat to the security of modern society, as was tragically shown in Norway on July 22, 2011, when Anders Behring Breivik carried out two terrorist attacks that resulted in a ...total of 77 deaths. Since lone wolves are acting on their own, information about them cannot be collected using traditional police methods such as infiltration or wiretapping. One way to attempt to discover them before it is too late is to search for various "weak signals" on the Internet, such as digital traces left in extremist web forums. With the right tools and techniques, such traces can be collected and analyzed. In this work, we focus on tools and techniques that can be used to detect weak signals in the form of linguistic markers for potential lone wolf terrorism.
Bereits die Mutter von Anders Behring Breivik wuchs als Heimkind und später in einer sozialen Randschichtfamilie mit dem Stigma auf, sie sei schuld an der invalidisierenden Poliomyelitis-Erkrankung ...der eigenen Mutter. Dieser Hintergrund bildete ein unbewusstes Motiv bei der Mutter für ihre Annahme, ihr ungeborener Sohn Anders hege sadistische Impulse gegen sie.Die Geschichte von Anders Behring Breivik wird rekonstruiert. Es wird deutlich, dass er als junger Erwachsener eine verheerende Bilanz zu ziehen hatte: Persönlich, beruflich und politisch gescheitert entwickelte er heftige Neid- und Rachegefühle gegen die Mitglieder der Arbeiterpartei, die alles zu haben schienen, was ihm fehlte. Daraus resultierten die verheerende Bombenattacke am Regierungssitz sowie das grauenhafte Massaker an 69 jungen Parteimitgliedern auf der Insel Utøya. Die Motive der Tat werden unter einer Mehrgenerationen-Perspektive rekonstruiert, bei der sowohl die familien- wie auch die soziodynamischen Faktoren beleuchtet werden.
22. juli 2011 ble Norge gjenstand for de alvorligste terrorhandlingene i landets historie. Ila fengsel fikk ansvaret for terroristen Anders Behring Breivik få dager etter angrepene. En større ...organisatorisk endringsprosess ble umiddelbart igangsatt. En ordinær lukket fengselsavdeling ble omgjort til en avdeling med særlig høyt sikkerhetsnivå (SHS). En rekke sikkerhetstiltak og nye rutiner ble innført. Dette fikk følger for fengselsbetjentene som ble utvalgt til å jobbe på det som ble hetende «SHS-avdelingen». Siden ingen andre ansatte fikk adgang til denne avdelingen, mistet SHS-betjentene for det første adgang til det normale kollegiale fellesskapet i fengselet. For det andre ble selve arbeidet på SHS-avdelingen regulert i detalj gjennom omfattende nye sikkerhetsprosedyrer. Betjentenes rom for autonome avgjørelser ble dermed innskrenket. For betjentene som jobbet på SHS-avdelingen ble hverdagen altså preget av sosial isolasjon og sosial disiplinering. Hovedfunnet i studien er at fengselsbetjentenes opplevelse av sosial isolasjon og disiplinering kan ha bidratt til at organisasjonskulturen på SHS-avdelingen ble mindre reflekterende.
Rhinos and Hippos, Oh My Betty, Louis
French politics, culture and society,
03/2023, Letnik:
41, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Laurent Obertone is virtually unknown outside the French-speaking world. The author of bestselling fiction and nonfiction works on crime, immigration, and civil war in France, Obertone maintains a ...cult following despite being exiled from mainstream media. This article examines the motifs of Obertone's work, focusing on human domestication, that is, the tendency of prosperous societies to excuse criminal behavior due to guilt, virtue signaling, and fear of conflict. Obertone sees French judicial laxity as a product of misguided humanitarianism coupled with status competition among elites to show the greatest indulgence toward criminals. This attitude is pushing France toward civil conflict, as criminals take advantage of a culture de l'excuse. Ultimately, Obertone's critique is of the "open society" consensus of the postwar West. Anti-authoritarian impulses are maladaptive in a climate of mass immigration and rapid social change, and if France does not take maintaining order seriously, the result will be catastrophic.
Anders Breivik is the right wing terrorist who planted bombs in central Oslo then traveled twenty-five miles to Utoya Island, where he murdered, maimed, and wounded more than 100 people—the children ...of left-leaning politicians and public officials—at a summer camp associated with the ruling Labor Party. Breivik maintained that the killings were an act of asymmetrical warfare aimed at alerting fellow citizens to the impending Islamization of Norway and beginning a revolution against the "traitorous" liberals who were permitting or encouraging immigration from Muslim countries. Breivik surrendered to authorities at the site of the mass murder, and whether he committed the shooting, killing, and bombing was never in controversy; the only issue at trial was Breivik's sanity. Psychiatric experts disagreed, leaving the District Court in Oslo with the challenge of determining whether acts rationally related to extreme rightwing political values and beliefs, in a culture with longstanding and deeply rooted right-wing traditions, satisfy the legal understanding of what it means to be deemed not guilty by virtue of insanity.
In this article, we investigate how victims pursue legal participation when they are confronted by legal barriers and dilemmas that arise from tensions between legal formality and lay expectations ...and contributions of legal proceedings. We use the trial against Anders Behring Breivik as a case. Breivik placed a bomb in Norway's Government District before he shot and killed 69 people on a small island. We analyze interviews with 31 victims who testified against Breivik in court. We argue that the circumstances of the trial against Breivik can be characterized as "ideal" in terms of victims' rights. The exceptionality of this case facilitates a focus on unquestioned obstacles to victim participation concerning the professionalization of the legal system. We question the presumption prevalent among some theorists that the professionalization of the legal system excludes lay participation, by arguing that legal formality both alienate and empower lay participation.
This article discusses the Norwegian film The Pyromaniae (Erik Skjoldbjæ rg 2016) as an artistic attempt to come to terms with terrorism, and as a cinematic treatment of the Norwegian terror attacks ...of 22nd of July 2011. The film is discussed in relation with several written accounts on 22nd of July and focus is on the role of the individual, the family and the society when it comes to guilt and shame following incomprehensible events.
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