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Simon Cottee
Simon Cottee is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of ISIS and the Pornography of Violence (Anthem) and Jihadists of the Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hot Spot (forthcoming, I.B. Tauris).