Vulnerability to radicalisation
The factors opposite have been identified by academics* as making individuals more vulnerable to exploitation.
This includes vulnerability to exploitation by extremists, sexual exploitation or other forms of exploitation.
The identification of these factors does not mean that someone is being exploited however research suggests it makes individuals more likely to be vulnerable.
*Dr Jon Cole, Emily Alison, Dr Ben Cole, and Prof Laurence Alison, University of Liverpool, 2009
Activity
Are there any factors that you think should be added to the list? Are there any factors that are particularly relevent to your work at the moment?
Use your notepad to record your thoughts.
Factors that may contribute to vulnerability include:
- Being rejected by peer, faith or social group/family
- Pressure from persons linked to extremism
- Victim or witness to race or religious hate crime
- Conflict with family over religious beliefs/lifestyle/politics
- Identity confusion
- Recent religious conversion
- Change in behaviour or appearance due to new influences
- Under-achievement
- May possess literature related to extreme views
- Experience of poverty, disadvantage or social exclusion
- Extremist influences
- A series of traumatic events global, national or personal.