Imran Awan, Birmingham City University, UK and Brian Blakemore, University of Glamorgan, UK.

’Despite a decade of tackling the home-grown terrorist threat, preventing terrorism and violent extremism remains the greatest contemporary policing challenge. This new volume is a valuable contribution to understanding how the police service can deliver effective counter-terrorism measures while maintaining the essential trust, confidence and cooperation of the public they serve.’ Andrew Staniforth, North East Counter-Terrorism Unit & Centre of Excellence for Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), UK

• List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Introduction, 1 Extremism, Radicalisation and Terrorism, 2 Policing Extremism within a Counter-Terrorism Context, 3 Combating Extremism through Community Policing, 4 Psychology of Extremism, 5 International Strategies for Preventing Extremism and Terrorism, 6 Extremist Groups and Organisations, 7 An Identity Crisis: Creating Extreme Identities in and Era of Counter-Terrorism, 8 Countering Global Extremism, 9 Trends and the Postmodernist Extremist, 10 Extremism, Counter-Terrorism and Policing, Index

Imran Awan, Birmingham City University, UK and Brian Blakemore, University of Glamorgan, UK.

’Despite a decade of tackling the home-grown terrorist threat, preventing terrorism and violent extremism remains the greatest contemporary policing challenge. This new volume is a valuable contribution to understanding how the police service can deliver effective counter-terrorism measures while maintaining the essential trust, confidence and cooperation of the public they serve.’ Andrew Staniforth, North East Counter-Terrorism Unit & Centre of Excellence for Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), UK

• List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Introduction, 1 Extremism, Radicalisation and Terrorism, 2 Policing Extremism within a Counter-Terrorism Context, 3 Combating Extremism through Community Policing, 4 Psychology of Extremism, 5 International Strategies for Preventing Extremism and Terrorism, 6 Extremist Groups and Organisations, 7 An Identity Crisis: Creating Extreme Identities in and Era of Counter-Terrorism, 8 Countering Global Extremism, 9 Trends and the Postmodernist Extremist, 10 Extremism, Counter-Terrorism and Policing, Index

Imran Awan, Birmingham City University, UK and Brian Blakemore, University of Glamorgan, UK.

’Despite a decade of tackling the home-grown terrorist threat, preventing terrorism and violent extremism remains the greatest contemporary policing challenge. This new volume is a valuable contribution to understanding how the police service can deliver effective counter-terrorism measures while maintaining the essential trust, confidence and cooperation of the public they serve.’ Andrew Staniforth, North East Counter-Terrorism Unit & Centre of Excellence for Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), UK

• List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Introduction, 1 Extremism, Radicalisation and Terrorism, 2 Policing Extremism within a Counter-Terrorism Context, 3 Combating Extremism through Community Policing, 4 Psychology of Extremism, 5 International Strategies for Preventing Extremism and Terrorism, 6 Extremist Groups and Organisations, 7 An Identity Crisis: Creating Extreme Identities in and Era of Counter-Terrorism, 8 Countering Global Extremism, 9 Trends and the Postmodernist Extremist, 10 Extremism, Counter-Terrorism and Policing, Index