Paxton Roberts

Research Associate and Geospatial Projects Manager

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Researcher on START Projects

Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States

October 2010 to December 2011

The Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) Database

March 2009 to September 2019

Selected Publications

The Terrorists' Planning Cycle: Patterns of Pre-incident Behaviors (Book Chapter)

A Community Level Comparison of Terrorism Movements in the United States (Journal Article)

Identity and Framing Theory, Precursor Activity, and the Radicalization Process (Report)

The Emergence of Lone Wolf Terrorism: Patterns of Behavior and Implications for Intervention (Journal Article)

Research Brief: Validation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (Research Brief)

Validation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative: Identifying Suspicious Activities from the Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) and the American Terrorism Study (ATS) (START Reports)

Patterns of Lone Actor Terrorism in the United States: Research Brief (Research Brief)

Update on Geospatial Patterns of Antecedent Behavior among Perpetrators in the American Terrorism Study (ATS) (START Reports)

Research Highlight: Identifying the Characteristics of Communities Where Perpetrators Live and Pre-Incident Activity Occurs (Research Brief)

From Extremist to Terrorist: Identifying the Characteristics of Communities Where Perpetrators Live and Pre-Incident Activity Occurs (START Reports)

Update on Geospatial Patterns of Precurrsor Behavior among Terrorists (START Reports)

Geospatial Patterns of Precurrsor Behavior among Terrorists (START Reports)

Characteristics of Communities where American Terrorists, Lived, Planned, and Conducted their Attacks (START Reports)

News References

Patterns of Lone Actor Terrorism in the U.S. (Featured Research)

START to offer Massive Open Online Course (News)

New START study examines communities where terrorists lived, planned and prepared (Featured Research)

Terrorists act locally (Featured Research)

New START Project to Focus on Extremist Violence in U.S. Counties (Featured Research)

Paxton Roberts

Paxton Roberts

Researcher on START Projects

Selected Publications

News References

Training

Community-led Action in Response to Violent Extremism

Fact Sheet

Infographic: Global Terrorism in 2018

Research

Comparing far-right and Islamist ideologically motivated homicides in the United States

Background Report

Ideological Motivations of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2016

Research

Desistance, Disengagement and Deradicalization

Background Report

Trends in Global Terrorism: Islamic State’s Decline in Iraq and Expanding Global Impact; Fewer Mass Casualty Attacks in Western Europe; Number of Attacks in the United States Highest since 1980s

Training

Designing Effective Community Responses to Radicalization to Violence (DECRRV)

News

START podcast series: Terrorism 360

Data

New Data: GTD 2018 Dataset

Fact Sheet

Far-Right Fatal Ideological Violence against Religious Institutions and Individuals in the United States: 1990-2018

Fact Sheet

Terrorist Attacks against Religious Targets in the United States, 1970 — 2017

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Paxton Roberts

Paxton Roberts

Researcher on START Projects

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