Alberto Testa
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Alberto Testa is a criminologist, a Far-Right expert and author. Alberto is currently a Professor of Applied Criminology and a full member of the Association of British Investigators. He is also a specialist in applied behaviour analysis (deception/credibility), forensic interviewing and cyber intelligence analysis. In 2021, for his work on extremism, Alberto was elected Fellow by the Council of the prestigious Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
Widely considered an expert on Far-Right extremism/terrorism & Far-Right Hooliganism, Alberto is a regular media contributor. He has contributed to a wide range of media including the Washington Post; the New York Times; BBC; LBC RADIO; Sky News; CNN; CBS; the Voice of America and many others.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Far Right: Radicalisation, De-Radicalisation
- Far Right: Terrorism & Policing
- Far-Right: Football Hooliganism
- Hate Crime – Antisemitism & Islamophobia
- Far-Right Football Hooliganism
- Mafia-Camorra-Ndrangheta & Policing
- Sport Criminology : Antisemitism and Racism in Football.
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LATEST MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
- Alberto Testa; The Washington Post: British white supremacist, initially sentenced to read Austen and Dickens, imprisoned for two years (January 2022).
- Alberto Testa; LBC Radio News: The Taliban & the Far-Right propaganda (September 2021).
- Alberto Testa; The New York Times: London Police Officer Convicted of Membership in Neo-Nazi Group (April, 2021).
CONTACT
Email: alberto_testa@icloud.com
Phone: +44(0)7585448201
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- White Jihad ,Terrorism and the Far-Right in Europe. Forthcoming paper: "The post-Tarrant world". Justifications for the Christchurch massacre" (2022).
- Through the Magnifying Glass: Mapping Extremism in the Bosnian Football Terraces. (Research supported by the International Organization for Migration -United Nations and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development -USAID). Forthcoming book: Football and Violent Extremism: An ethnographic study of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ultras (Routledge- 2023).
- On the streets of “Gomorrah” with the Falchi (Hawks). In this ethnographic work, criminologist Alberto Testa will explain the dangerous world of the “Falchi”, an elite motorcycle unit of the Italian Police which has battled against Italian organised crime since the 1970’s.
- Guest editor for the research collection Sport, radicalisation and violent extremism (Frontiers - 2022)
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ESTEEM INDICATORS
- Expert participant at the European Commission Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN);
- UK representative at the Institute for National and International Security (INIS). INIS is an International think thank for Intelligence, National and International Security, Defense and Counter-Terrorism;
- Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the SportComLab- Centre for Research on Sports Communication, Department Of Education Science, at the “Alma Mater Studiorum”-Bologna University (Italy);
- Co-Editor of the Security Science Journal.
- Researcher at the Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research -RUSI
BLOG: STUDYING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
- Sociology, Social Networks
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Books:
- Testa, A., & Amara, F. (Eds.). (2015). Sport in Islam and in Muslim communities. New York: Routledge.
- Testa, A., & Armstrong, G. (2010). Football, fascism and fandom: The UltraS of Italian football. London: A and C Black Publishers, Ltd.
- Testa, A., & Sergi, A. (2018). Corruption, mafia power and Italian soccer. New York: Routledge.
Journal Articles:
- Testa, A. (2012). Bosman ruling. In J. Nauright (Ed.), Sports around the world: History, culture and practice. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
- Testa, A. (2011). Experiences of online learning: An evaluation of first-year sport sciences university students’ attitudes towards the use of U-Link. International Education Studies, 4(4), 13-21.
- Testa, A. (2010). Contested meanings. The Italian media and the UltraS. Review of European Studies, 1(2), 54-63.
- Testa, A. (2009). UltraS: An emerging social movement. Review of European Studies, 1(2), 54-63.
- Testa, A., & Armstrong, G. (2010). Purity and danger: Policing the Italian Neo-Fascist football UltraS. Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, 23(3), 219-237.
- Testa, A., & Armstrong, G. (2008). Words and actions: Italian UltraS and Neo-Fascism. Social Identities, 14(4), 473-490.
Other Publications:
- Testa, A. (2011). The normalization of the exception: Issues and controversies of the Italian Counter Hooliganism model, 13th Annual Conference on Global Sociology for a Global World. The Hong Kong Sociological Association. The Chinese Hong Kong University. Hong Kong.
- Testa, A. (2010). Getting off on the wrong foot can doom a relationship before it begins: An evaluation of first year sport sciences university students’ attitudes towards the use of the online virtual learning system. 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. Hawaii-USA
- Testa, A. (2010). Using Moral panic to shape the Padania identity: The Italian Lega Nord and the Islam Invasion. Moral Panics in the Contemporary World. International Sociological Conference. Brunel University-London, UK.
- Testa, A. (2009). The importance of Ethnography in making sense of sport. 16th Erasmus-Socrates Sociology Intensive Course. Barcelona-Spain.
- Testa, A. (2007). Revolution from the right? Neo-Fascism in the 21st century Italian football stadia and society, local sport in Europe. In D. Jutting, B. Schulze, and U. Muller (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th EASS Conference of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport (pp. 142-144). Munster-Germany.
- Testa, A. (2006). Sport e Doping: un analisi sociologica e alcune raccomandazioni (Sport and Doping: a sociological analysis and some recommendations). Programma di formazione/informazione per la tutela della salute nelle attivita’ sportive e prevenzione doping. [Program of Scientific Information to safeguard the health in sports and to prevent doping use]. Ministero della Salute-Istit. Super. di Sanita. Italy CVD 9-9.2, pp. 32-37.
- Testa, A. (2006). The Italian Ultras and Nationalism. Sport, Nation and Nationalism, Proceedings of 3S International Conference on Social Science in Sport and 8th ISHPES Seminar. (International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport and the International Sociology of Sport Association). Slovenia.
- Testa, A., & Armstrong, G. (2012). The UltraS: The extreme right in contemporary Italian football. In A. Mammone, E. Godin and B. Jenkins (Eds.), Varieties of right-wing extremism in contemporary Europe (Series on Extremism and Democracy). London: Routledge.
Courses Taught:
- Applied Intelligence Analysis
- Ethnography
- Penology
Alberto Testa
London W5 5RF
United Kingdom
- Phone: (+44) 02082312437
- Skype Name: sociology69