ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the actual practice of reintegrating detainees with an extremist background and is based on interviews with former detainees who have gone through this process and with those involved with their guidance and supervision. It describes the experiences of former prisoners, drawing from documented interviews and analyses them in terms of the three dimensions of the de-radicalisation and/or reintegration process. The chapter suggests a few criteria for testing and developing rehabilitation and reintegration processes. The results of these interviews and the assessment of them are intended to gain insight into recent practices related to the reintegration of former prisoners with a jihadi or radical background, so as to better understand the opportunities and obstacles that presented themselves. According to social identity theory, it is important to know how someone sees their self, and how they size up the trajectory of their own detention. Their responses in that regard will either help or hinder the reintegration process.
