Mijke van den Hurk is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; Dutch National Police, Dutch, Netherlands.
Abstract: The organisation of violent extremist groups became much more emergent, with the formation of independent cells operating on their own. Investigative authorities need to have understanding of this phenomenon in order to intervene efficiently.
We built a model in which the dynamic process of violent extremist small group development can be studied. It is based on the general process of group development, in which different group phases can be obtained.