Dr William Allchorn
Associate Professor in Criminology
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School: Department of Social Sciences & Humanities
About
Dr William Allchorn is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Richmond, the American University in London. He is an expert on far-right extremist social movements in the UK, Western Europe and globally. He has most recently advised the UK, US and Australian governments on their approaches to radical-right extremism. His first book, Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK: Policy Responses to the Far Right was published by Routledge in 2018. Recently, William’s research has shifted to studying the violent far right threat landscape. His latest book, Moving beyond Islamist Extremism – Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Global Far Right, was published by Ibidem (an imprint of Columbia University Press) in early 2022.
