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Role of identity and religious faith in promoting and countering extremism Characteristics and drivers of prominent extremists and those with wider extremist sentiment; levels and regional variations.
Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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