Sökning: "Lone actor terrorism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade orden Lone actor terrorism.

  1. 1. The Howl of the Lone Wolf

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Författare :Jonna Rolfsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Lone Wolf; Manifesto; Narrative; Targets; Right-wing; Underdog; Ideology; Social System; Social Order; Crisis; Violence; Mass-harm; Replacement; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Attacks of mass-harm perpetrated by lone actor terrorists, also known as lone wolves which they are called in this study, have been increasing in the last few decades and has become one of the main national security threats in Sweden. With the increase in attacks, so has the research on this type of terrorism, looking at ideological reasons, target selection and the radicalisation process as well as comparisons to group-based terrorism. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Den mediala framställningen av Theodor Engström,Almedalsmördaren : En kritisk diskursanalys om hur Theodor Engström framställts i Aftonbladet, Expressen och Svenska Dagbladet

    Kandidat-uppsats, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Mimmi Jansson; Malin Olsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Lone actor; terrorism; extremism; media coverage; press coverage; news media; stigmatization; mental illness;

    Sammanfattning : The threat of lone offenders is a growing problem in Sweden and the world. In this study, three major Swedish newspapers have been selected and analyzed based on their portrayal of a lone wolf perpetrator: Theodor Engström, the man behind the knife murder of the psychiatry coordinator Ing-Marie Wieselgren during the political week in Almedalen, 2022. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Nazist och autist - men ingen terrorist? En fallstudie med TRAP-18

    L2-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Harald Bech-Jansen; Åsa Gidlund; [2023]
    Nyckelord :TRAP-18; Terrorism; Sweden; Warning; Threats; Warning behaviour; Characteristics; Swedish Security Service; Lone-actor; National security; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates how the TRAP-18 instrument can be used to identify and prioritize threats from lone actor terrorists by applying the framework on a case of a Swedish man convicted of weapons offenses and crimes against the law on flammable and explosive substances. This case is a contribution to the increasing number of studies using TRAP-18, due to the fact that the individual studied is not convicted of, or has committed, any act of terrorism. LÄS MER

  4. 4. A Loner, But Not Alone: Analyzing the Hanau Terror Attack in German News Media

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Författare :Keea Malin Kauhanen; [2020]
    Nyckelord :far-right terrorism; critical whiteness; masculinity studies; news media; racism; extremism; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes how the German news media depicted the terrorist attack in Hanau, which killed 10 people on 19th February 2020. This is done by conducting a thematic analysis in two major German newspapers, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Collaboration, Lone-wolfs and Returners – Framing Terrorism in Swedish Counter-Terrorism Policies

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Författare :Hanna Edgren; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Terrorism; Counter-terrorism; Collaboration; Lone-wolfs; Policy analysis; Social problem; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Whereas a lot of research on social problems has focused on understanding them as objective conditions, the purpose of this study is to examine how terrorism is framed in three Swedish policies for countering terrorism. The three Swedish policies for countering terrorism, included in this study, were published between 2008-2015, and are important platforms wherein the framing of terrorism as a social problem takes place. LÄS MER