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The analysis, based on hundreds of case studies of those involved in or closely associated with terrorism, concludes that there is no single pathway to extremism. All had taken strikingly different journeys to violent extremist activity.
However the security service does say that most individuals in the sample had some vulnerability in their background that made them receptive to extremist ideology.