Martine Herzog-Evans is professor of law and criminology at Reims University.Massil Benbouriche is associate professor of psychology and justice at the University of Lille.

Part I: Laying Down the Theoretical GroundsChapter 1: A General Psycho-Criminological Understanding of Violent Extremism by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 2: What's criminology got to do with it? By Martine Herzog-Evans and Massil BenbouricheChapter 3: Dynamical Threat Assessment: An Innovative Approach to Preventive Investigations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism by Jason Freeland, Jytte Klausen, and Caroline A. PagéChapter 4: Violence-Supportive Cognition and Implicit Theories in Aggressive and Violent Behaviors: Implications for Violent Extremism by Massil Benbouriche and Olivier VanderstukkenChapter 5: A Focus on Identity and Identity Fusion by Sophie BerjotChapter 6: A Significance Quest Framework of Radicalization and Deradicalizaton by David WebberChapter 7: The Religious Dimensions of Extremism by Heather S. GreggPart II: Situating the French contextChapter 8: Extremist Violence on French Soil in the Wake of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the New Lines of Public Action by Benjamin Ducol and Alex WoodChapter 9: French Violent Extremists, Before and After Merah: Psychopathology by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 10: French Violent Extremists, Before and Since Merah: Criminogenic and Specific Needs by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 11: A Psycho-Criminological Study of French Terrorist Women since 2012 by Marie PerrierPart III: Reacting to Violent ExtremismChapter 12: The Legal Understanding of the Four Stages of the Radicalization to Terrorism Continuum: Issues of Public Safety and Civil Liberties in France by Martine Herzog-Evans, Jean-Philippe Vicentini and Vincent DufourdChapter 13: Incarcerating Terrorists in the West: From Segregation to Dispersal and Back Again by Mark S. HammChapter 14: The Balance between Human Rights and Efficacy by Vanja GrujicChapter 15: Developing and Implementing an EBP Program in the French Context by Martine Herzog-EvansChapter 16: Good Practices: UK: Translating Identity Theory into Identity Informed Intervention by Christopher DeanChapter 17: A Dutch Source of Inspiration: Violent Emotional States by Marije Keulen de Vos

Using France as a case study, contributors from around the world explore the factors that create violent extremists, including criminogenic needs, violence-supportive cognition, religious beliefs, identity uncertainty or fusion, the quest for significance, and social and political influences. They present a multidisciplinary and evidenced-based analysis of how and why violent extremism has reappeared as a contemporary issue and provide theoretical and practical approaches to responding to and, when possible, intervening, using deradicalization programs, deterrent and preventive legislations, prison segregation, and permanent monitoring.