Designing Rehabilitation and Reintegration Programmes for Violent Extremist Offenders: A Realist Approach

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In 2010, the Director of National Intelligence assessed that an approximate 20% of former Guantanamo Bay detainees were suspected of reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities, a figure confirmed by the Obama administration . Elsewhere, similar concerns have been raised over recidivism rates among inmates with a terrorist or extremist background.3 Indeed, prisons are often seen as places where radical ideologies fester and where terrorist movements seek to recruit new members into their ranks.