Thomas Mair

On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire. The perpetrator was Thomas Mair, a 52-year-old local. After the murder he said that he was motivated by Jo Cox’s support to the European Union and its lenient immigration policy.

In this module we analysed the steps on the ‘Pathway to violence’ of …. It is up to you to fill in these steps for Thomas Mair as well. First, view the video below on the murder of Jo Cox:

 

Radicalisering

Thomas Mair became radicalised to the extreme right. But there are more types of radicalisation. How can you deal with that as a teacher?