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In a climate of rapidly expanding diversity, preventing and combating societal polarization, violent extremism and radicalisation leading to terrorism are major European concerns which need a comprehensive response.

In February 2016, the magazine "Enfoque" in its first issue, published an article in which it raised the current status of prisons as a space of radicalization and recruitment.

The formation of mafia type crime groups that facilitate organised crime online has been widely speculated within the cybercrime community, but the evidence and logic for such groups has been less forthcoming and this article seeks to address this knowledge imbalance.

The internet has not only changed the ways that crime is organised and committed, especially transnationally and online, but it has also changed the nature and meaning of the organised aspect of organised crime.

In 2017, children were victims of attacks on a frightening scale due to the total disregard of International norms that protect the weakest. As revealed in the Syrian observatory for human rights latest report, in the last days of combat (July 2017), IS suffered around 480 casualties, of which almost 300 were minors known as

The phenomena of “hacktivism” rose to the media’s attention from 2011 onwards and peaked together with incidents of “hacktivism” in 2015-16 to disappear from the media’s attention shortly afterwards. While hacktivism still does not receive as much press coverage as it used to, recent events in Venezuela and Sudan have sparked a revival of interest

TAKEDOWN focussed on creating new insights on Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks (OC/TN) through quantitative and qualitative research as well as in-depth analysis. Furthermore, a multidimensional model for analysing cases and assessing risks was created, and the online platforms www.firstlinepractitioners.com and www.fightcrimeterrorism.com have been developed. The TAKEDOWN policy recommendations are based on insights from the

Addressing societal polarization caused by the adoption and spread of extremist ideologies by creating an interdisciplinary education oriented model of learning

What causes some people to become radicalised and to participate in cybercrime and cyberterrorism?

New Services and Tools for Supporting First-line-practitioners and Law Enforcement Agencies - presented by the H2020-Project TAKEDOWN