ABSTRACT

Anders Behring Breivik terrorized Norway on July 22, 2011. He bombed government buildings in Oslo killing 8, and then killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, at an educational camp of the Workers Youth League on the island of Utoya (together wounding 242). With links to the militant, far-right English Defence League, Breivik protested the government’s immigration policy and promoted the deportation of all Muslims from Europe. On August 24, 2012 he was declared sane, found guilty of mass murder, fatal explosion, and terrorism. At thirty-three years of age, Breivik was sentenced to twenty-one years in prison (under the “preventive detention” verdict that extends the sentence as long as he is considered a threat to society).