ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of the book. The book focuses on some of the factors that make disengagement and de-radicalisation attractive to detainees. It shows that reintegration and Exit programmes for jihadi detainees are still in their infancy and too little data is available to evaluate their effectiveness. The book also took note of some of the concurrent ideological, social, and personal-psychological dimensions of the reintegration process. As for the long-term effects of the rehabilitative efforts, there is still little to say conclusively about the terrorist offenders in the last wave of arrests – a documented track record has yet to be established. A social barrier to de-radicalisation and disengagement was that TDF prisoners sought and found recognition, acknowledgement and solidarity amongst themselves, which helped them shore up their social identity as the jihadists.
