ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the radicalization process the 32CSM/IRA use to gain support, mainly from Catholic republican or nationalist communities (including recruiting individuals to the IRA). Just as there is difficulty in deriving one agreed definition of what actions amount to an act to terrorism, when examining the empirical work carried out on radicalization, it too contains conflicting findings. This chapter applies radicalization theories to the methods the 32CSM/IRA use to gain support from their use of e-sources, symbols, and ceremonies. In the process, we can make links to the offenses examined in Part 1 of the book, being members of a proscribed organization, possession of articles that are likely to assist those preparing or committing acts of terrorism and offenses related to terrorist funding.
