Extremist group exits: what autobiographies by male right-wing formers reveal about identity transformation

Figures & data

Figure 1. A visualisation of Tajfel and Turner’s SIT.

Table 1. An overview of analysed autobiographies, with translated titles in italics.

Author(s)	Title	Year	Country
Ray Hill/Andrew Bell	The other face of terror: Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi network	1988	England
Kent Lindahl/Janne Mattson	EXIT: Min väg bort från nazismen [EXIT: My journey away from Nazism]	2000	Sweden
Tom Kimmo Eiternes/Katrine Fangen	Bak Nynazismen [Behind the neo-Nazism]	2002	Norway
T J Leyden/M Bridget Cook	Skinhead confessions: From hate to hope	2008	USA
Arno Michaels	My life after hate	2010	USA
Matthew Collins	Hate: My life in the British far right	2011	England
Johan Egonsson	Ett liv i mörker [A life in the dark]	2012	Sweden
Frank Meeink/Jody M. Roy	Autobiography of a recovering skinhead	2017	USA
Christian Picciolini	White American youth: My descent into America’s most violent hate movement – and how I got out	2017	USA
Tony McAleer	The cure for hate: A former white supremacists’ journey from violent extremism to radical compassion	2019	Canada

Figure 2. An adapted visualisation of the SIT.

Hill, R., & Bell, A. (1988). The other face of terror: Inside Europe’s neo-Nazi network. Grafton Books.

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Lindahl, K., & Mattson, J. (2000). Exit: Min väg bort från nazismen [Exit: My journey away from Nazism]. Norstedts Forlag AB.

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Eiternes, T. K., & Fangen, K. (2002). Bak nynazismen [Behind the neo-Nazism]. Cappelen Forlag.

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Leyden, T. J. (2008). Skinhead confessions: From hate to hope. Cedar Fort.

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Michaelis, A. (2010). My life after hate. Authentic Presence Publications.

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Collins, M. (2011). Hate: My life in the British far right. Biteback Publishing.

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Egonsson, J. (2012). Ett liv i mörker [A life in the dark]. Forum.

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Meeink, F., & Roy, J. M. (2017). Autobiography of a recovering skinhead. Hawthorne Books.

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Picciolini, C. (2017). White American youth: My descent into America’s most violent hate movement—and how I got out. Hachette Books.

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McAleer, T. (2019). The cure for hate: A former white supremacist’s journey from violent extremism to radical compassion. Arsenal Pulp Press.

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