28 April 2020
"Convicted terrorists are extremely unlikely to reoffend compared with other prisoners, research by academics and security services in Europe has found."
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"The research shows that less than 5% of convicted terrorists commit a second terrorist offence after leaving prison. In England and Wales, around 45% of all prisoners will reoffend within a year of release.
The research was conducted in Belgium, which has faced Islamist terrorism since the early 1990s and became one of the centres of the Islamic State campaign in Europe in 2015 and 2016."
Convicted terrorists less likely to reoffend than other criminals – study (The Guardian, link)
See: Overblown: Exploring the Gap Between the Fear of Terrorist Recidivism and the Evidence (CTC at West Point, link): "A review of the judiciary files of 557 jihadi terrorist convicts in Belgium, spanning the three decades from 1990, confirms that less than five percent reengaged in terrorist activities. These findings bear significant implications for counterterrorism policies broadly and for sentencing and post-penitentiary measures more specifically."
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