Linking Conspiracy Beliefs with Violence: A Scoping Review of the Empirical Literature
Linking Conspiracy Beliefs with Violence: A Scoping Review of the Empirical Literature
Emma Belton Tiahna Mulholland Kristina Murphy a Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australiab School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaEmma Belton is an Early Career Researcher, with a strong track record of research in radicalisation and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and holds Research Fellow positions at Griffith University focusing on understanding the emerging threat of grievance-fuelled extremism. She is also a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and Australian National University. Her research focuses on characteristics of individual radicalisation and risk factors that differentiate violent and non-violent extremists. She led the development of the Profiles of Individual Radicalisation in Australia (PIRA) dataset, which collects data on terrorist offenders and individuals who have radicalised to extremism across the ideological spectrum. She is undertaking research on violent extremism risk assessment and evaluations of various CVE programs.Tiahna Mulholland is a Principal Research Assistant with the School of Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. She is currently part of a project examining the validity and application of the VERA-2R risk assessment instrument. Dr Mulholland holds a PhD in Criminology from Griffith University. Her research focuses on radicalisation and violent extremism and aims to examine why some individuals become cognitively radicalised while others become behaviourally radicalised. She has presented this research at both domestic and international conferences. She has worked on projects funded by the Queensland Police Service, New Zealand Police Service, Home Affairs, and the ARC.Kristina Murphy is a Professor of Criminology at Griffith University. She is a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences and was the recipient of the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2019-2023). Kristina’s research integrates social psychological, criminological and socio-legal theories to understand why people defy or comply with authorities and laws. She is widely regarded as a world leader in procedural justice field, where she argues that procedural injustice can foster grievances and distrust of authorities, which subsequently shape how people behave toward authorities and rules. Kristina’s recent research centres on the role of procedural justice policing in fostering public trust in police and the role of justice grievances in promulgating conspiracy-fuelled extremism.