The Need for Exit Programmes
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The UK’s approach to far-right violence has centred around anti-racism and preventative work, intervention with those on their way into groups, incarceration, and victims support. But the UK is missing a critical step in between: intervention with those already in far-right movements, to stop violence from occurring in the first place., The UK is well placed to trial programmes to intervene directly with far-right extremists, and offer individuals a route out of extremist groups. ISD has launched a new report on the evidence behind ‘Exit programmes’, which deradicalise and disengage individuals from far-right extremist movements, and the viability of Exit work in the UK.