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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders	Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen	January, 2020 to December, 2022
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to October, 2022
Radicalization in the Ranks	Michael Jensen, Sheehan Kane	April, 2021 to February, 2022
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States	Erin Miller, Michael Jensen	September, 2020 to January, 2022
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah	Barnett S. Koven, Samuel D. Henkin	September, 2019 to September, 2021
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders	Michael Jensen, Gary LaFree	January, 2018 to October, 2020
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin	Barnett S. Koven	July, 2018 to June, 2020
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+	Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve Sin	July, 2018 to April, 2020
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)	Barnett S. Koven	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database	Marcus A. Boyd	January, 2019 to December, 2019
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven, William Braniff	September, 2018 to December, 2019
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization	Barnett S. Koven, Ramon F. Brena	March, 2018 to September, 2019
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space	Steve Sin, Marcus A. Boyd	September, 2016 to September, 2019
The Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) Database	Gary LaFree, Brent Smith, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Erin Miller, William Braniff, Kathleen Smarick	March, 2009 to September, 2019
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban	Barnett S. Koven	February, 2019 to August, 2019
Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks	Erin Miller	October, 2017 to August, 2019
A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs	Gary LaFree, Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz	January, 2015 to March, 2019
Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset	Barnett S. Koven	March, 2018 to June, 2018
Open-Source Geospatial Analysis of Criminal Activity	Marcus A. Boyd	January, 2017 to June, 2018
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Patterns of U.S. Extremist Crime	Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, William Parkin	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs	William Braniff	June, 2016 to May, 2017
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance	Marcus A. Boyd	July, 2015 to July, 2016
International and Regional Architecture Reports	Brandon Behlendorf, Emily Iarocci, Gary Ackerman, Steve Sin	May, 2012 to September, 2015
Organized and/or Transnational Crime/Drug Cartel Nexus with Illicit Radiological/Nuclear Trade, Smuggling and/or Terrorism in Europe and North, Sahelian and West Africa	Amy Pate, John Sawyer, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve Sin	September, 2013 to March, 2015
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict	Brandon Behlendorf, Gary LaFree	January, 2013 to August, 2014
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion	Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Roberta Belli	July, 2012 to December, 2013
The Threat of Pakistani Criminal Organizations: Assessing the Potential for Involvement in Radiological/Nuclear Smuggling, Collaboration with Terrorist Groups and the Potential to Destabilize the Pakistani State	Amy Pate, Gary Ackerman	April, 2012 to July, 2012
United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), 1990-2010	Joshua Freilich, Roberta Belli, Steven Chermak	June, 2008 to October, 2011
Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Experience	David Weisburd	June, 2009 to May, 2010
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	January, 2005 to June, 2009
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners	Bert Useem, Obie Clayton	June, 2005 to May, 2009
Creation of a Database of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2005	Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak	June, 2007 to January, 2009
Extremist Crime Database Related Projects	Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah	December 2021		Report
Investigating the Applicability of Macro-Level Criminology Theory to Terrorism: A County-Level Analysis	November 2014	Adamczyk, Amy; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven; Parkin, William	Journal Article
Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America	November 2009	Arias, Enrique	Book Chapter
Countering the Inhumane: Modeling Probable Pathways for Human Smuggling and Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border	May 2015	Behlendorf, Brandon; Zhuang, Jun; Johns, Mila	Research Brief
TOC as a Growing Threat to Regional, Global Security	January 2022	Boyd, Marcus A.; Henkin, Samuel D.	Journal Article
Alternative Scales of Extremism: The Relationship Between Scale and Predictive Measures of Extremism in the United States	January 2022	Boyd, Marcus A.; Henkin, Samuel D.	START Reports
Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Geospatial Tool	March 2016	Boyd, Marcus A.; Sin, Steve	Project Fact Sheet
Intelligence Analysis within U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies: Empirical Insights from a National Sample	August 2014	Carter, Jeremy	Journal Article
Implementing Intelligence-Led Policing: An Application of Loose-Coupling Theory	December 2014	Carter, Jeremy	Journal Article
To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?	October 2009	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Book review: Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11 By Darren E. Tromblay	September 2019	Dahl, Erik	Book Review
Local Approaches to Counterterrorism: The New York Police Department Model	August 2014	Dahl, Erik	Journal Article
When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations Are Involved in the Drug Trade	March 2012	Deloughery, Kathleen; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism	September 2013	Deloughery, Kathleen; King, Ryan D.; Asal, Victor	START Reports
Close Cousins or Distance Relatives? The Relationship Between Terrorism and Hate Crime	October 2012	Deloughery, Kathleen; King, Ryan D.; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Research Highlight: Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism -- A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism	October 2013	Deloughery, Kathleen; King, Ryan; Asal, Victor	Research Brief
Analysis of Factors Related to Hate Crime and Terrorism	December 2012	Deloughery, Kathleen; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; King, Ryan D.; Asal, Victor	START Reports
Sociological and Criminological Explanations of Terrorism	May 2019	Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
The Differential Risk of Retaliation by Relational Distance: A More General Model of Violent Victimization	March 2005	Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Gray Zone Crises in MENA and Eastern Europe	March 2017	Ellis, Devin; Murauskaite, Egle; Wilkenfeld, Jonathan; Capps, Ron	Research Brief
Terrorists Next Door? A Comparison of Mexican Drug Cartels and Middle Eastern Terrorist Organizations	March 2012	Flanigan, Shawn	Journal Article
Introducing the Special Issue on New Directions in Terrorism Research	May 2015	Freilich, Joshua	Journal Article
Disrupting Terrorist Assassinations Through Situational Crime Prevention	July 2017	Freilich, Joshua	Journal Article
Politics, Culture, and Political Crime: Covariates of Abortion Clinic Attacks in the United States	May 2007	Freilich, Joshua	Journal Article
Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism	November 2006	Freilich, Joshua	Book
Reducing Terrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention	November 2009	Freilich, Joshua	Book
Migration, Crime, and Victimization	May 2019	Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta	Book Chapter
Exploring the Crime-Terror Nexus in the United States: A Social Network Analysis of a Hezbollah Network Involved in Trade Diversion	October 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Exploring the U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks and Trade Diversion	October 2014	Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta; Chermak, Steven	Research Brief
Financial Crime and Political Extremism in the U.S.	January 2012	Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta; Chermak, Steven	Research Brief
How Women Engage Homegrown Terrorism	April 2014	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Are Honor Killings Unique? A Comparison of Honor Killings, Domestic Violence Homicides, and Hate Homicides by Far-Right Extremists	October 2017	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship to Determine Whether They Are "Close Cousins" or "Distant Relatives"	December 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship	May 2016	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Research Brief
Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing	November 2013	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Comparison of Honor Killings to Anti-LGBTQ Homicides	January 2018	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Surveying American State Police Agencies about Lone Wolves, Far-Right Criminality, and Far-Right and Islamic Jihadist Criminal Collaboration	October 2010	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Routine Activities and Right-Wing Extremists: An Empirical Comparison of the Victims of Ideologically Motivated and Non-Ideologically Motivated Homicides Committed by American Far-Rightists	August 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Parkin, William	Journal Article
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	September 2021	Gelfand, Michele	Journal Article
Understanding Community Responses to Authority/Law Enforcement Minority-Outreach Intergroup Communication Frames	July 2016	Glasford, Demis	Research Brief
Introducing the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB)	January 2014	Gruenewald, Jeff; Freilich, Joshua; Belli, Roberta; Chermak, Steven; Parkin, William	Journal Article
A Mixed-Method Analysis of Fatal Attacks on Policy by Far-Right Extremists	December 2015	Gruenewald, Jeff; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Criminal Justice & Military Deaths at the Hands of Extremists	November 2016	Gruenewald, Jeff; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven; Parkin, William	Background Report
Crime Terror Alliances and the State. Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security	May 2013	Gurr, Ted Robert	Book
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia	December 2021	Henkin, Samuel D.	Report
The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): Examining Recidivism Rates for Post-9/11 Offenders	April 2019	Hodwitz, Omi	Journal Article
Leadership protection in drug-trafficking networks	February 2015	Hofmann, David	Journal Article
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Development of Narco-Submarines	March 2016	Jacome, Michelle	Journal Article
Definitions Favorable to Terrorism? SSSL and Radicalization: A Case Study Approach	February 2019	James, Patrick	Journal Article
QAnon Crimes in the United States: A Comprehensive Dataset Codebook	September 2021	Jensen, Michael	START Reports
QAnon Offenders in the United States	September 2021	Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	Research Brief
QAnon-inspired Violence in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of a Misunderstood Threat	December 2021	Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	Journal Article
Prison and Violent Political Extremism in the United States	April 2019	Jiang, Bo; LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Violence in Peru	April 2018	Koven, Barnett S.	Book Chapter
The Obama Administration and Peru	February 2016	Koven, Barnett S.	Book Chapter
The Evolution of Peru’s Shining Path and the New Security Priorities in the Hemisphere	February 2015	Koven, Barnett S.	Book Chapter
Cooperation and Drug Policies: Trends in Peru in the Twenty-First Century	December 2014	Koven, Barnett S.	Book Chapter
Rethinking Alternative Development	December 2015	Koven, Barnett S.	Journal Article
The Perils of Simultaneous COIN and Counternarcotics in Peru and Colombia	April 2014	Koven, Barnett S.	Journal Article
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure	April 2020	Koven, Barnett S.; Lindquist, Katy; Erdemandi, Max	Project Fact Sheet
The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective	September 2021	Kruglanski, Arie	Book
The Paradox of the Heavy-handed Insurgent: Public Support for the Taliban Among Afghan Pashtuns.	January 2022	Kruglanski, Arie	Journal Article
Criminology's Third War: Special Issue on Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism	August 2009	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
The Growing Importance of Criminology in the Study of Terrorism	November 2007	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Expanding Criminology's Domain: The American Society of Criminology 2006 Presidential Address	February 2007	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Criminology, Terrorism, and Serendipity	June 2015	LaFree, Gary	Book Chapter
Micro and Macro-Level Risk Factors for Extremism and Terrorism: Toward a Criminology of Extremist Violence	August 2021	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
In the Shadow of 9/11: How the Study of Political Extremism Has Reshaped Criminology	December 2021	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
County-Level Correlates of Terrorist Attacks in the United States	November 2014	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Terrorism Open Source Databases	March 2022	LaFree, Gary	Book Chapter
How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime?	January 2004	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Book Chapter
How Has Criminology Contributed to the Study of Terrorism since 9/11?	September 2015	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Testing a Rational Choice Model of Airline Hijackings	November 2005	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Criminal Attacks by Radical Environmental and Animal Rights Groups in the United States, 1970–2007	March 2012	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism	November 2016	LaFree, Gary; Freilich, Joshua	Book
Bringing Criminology into the Study of Terrorism	January 2017	LaFree, Gary; Freilich, Joshua	Book Chapter
Criminology Theory and Terrorism: New Applications and Approaches	July 2015	LaFree, Gary; Freilich, Joshua	Book
Social Learning and Social Control in the Off- and Online Pathways to Hate Crime and Terrorist Violence	March 2019	LaFree, Gary; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
The Intersection of Homicide, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism	January 2018	LaFree, Gary; Gruenewald, Jeff	Journal Article
Weapon Choice and American Political Violence: A Comparison of Terrorists and Other Felons in Federal Custody	August 2009	Legault, Richard	Journal Article
Structural Differences of Violent Extremist Offenders in Correctional Settings	June 2015	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Hezbollah's Global Tentacles: A Relational Approach to Convergence with Transnational Organised Crime	November 2015	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing	May 2018	Leuprecht, Christian	Book Chapter
A Surveillance Banner on Compromised Computer Systems Reduces Hackers’ Active Engagement	July 2015	Maimon, David	Research Brief
Illegal Roaming and File Manipulation on Target Computers: Assessing the Effect of Sanction Threats on System Trespassers’ Online Behaviors	August 2017	Maimon, David	Journal Article
Cyber-Dependent Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Review	January 2019	Maimon, David	Journal Article
War Versus Criminal Justice in Response to Terrorism: The Losing Logic of Torture	January 2009	McCauley, Clark	Book Chapter
How Many Suicide Terrorists are Suicidal?	August 2014	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
When Terrorists Go Bad: Analyzing Terrorist Organizations' Involvement in Drug Smuggling	November 2014	Milward, H. Brinton; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
’Unholy Alliances’: How Transnational Terrorists and Crime Make Common Cause	November 2010	Mincheva, Lyubov; Gurr, Ted Robert	Book Chapter
Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia	June 2010	Mincheva, Lyubov; Gurr, Ted Robert	Book Chapter
The Trust Paradox in Nuclear Smuggling	December 2015	Murauskaite, Egle	Journal Article
Nuclear Smuggling and Threats to Lithuanian Security	December 2016	Murauskaite, Egle	Journal Article
Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus	December 2016	Neumann, Peter	Journal Article
The “New” Face of Transnational Crime Organizations (TCOs): A Geopolitical Perspective and Implications to U.S. National Security	May 2013	Pate, Amy; Ackerman, Gary; Johns, Mila	White Paper
Children of Terrorism Survivors: Physiological Reactions Seven Years following a Terrorist Incident	January 2014	Pfefferbaum, Betty	Book Chapter
How Does Leadership Decapitation Affect Violence? The Case of Drug Trafficking Organizations in Mexico	April 2015	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Crime Pays: Terrorist Group Engagement in Crime and Survival	November 2017	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Opium Trade and Patterns of Terrorism in the Provinces of Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis	March 2012	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Illicit Drug Trade, Counternarcotics Strategies and Terrorism	December 2011	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism	February 2015	Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization	October 2011	Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States	May 2017	Pyrooz, David C.; LaFree, Gary; James, Patrick; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
Crime, Conflict, and the Legitimacy Trade-Off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents’ Participation in Crime	February 2019	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade	May 2013	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Breiger, Ronald	Journal Article
The Link Between Prior Criminal Record and Violent Political Extremism in the United States	June 2020	Safer-Lichtenstein, Aaron; LaFree, Gary; Jensen, Michael; James, Patrick	Book Chapter
Maritime Security Initiatives: A Paper Tiger or a Concrete Solution?	November 2016	Sin, Steve	Journal Article
Prosecuting Terrorism: Challenges in the Post-9/11 World	September 2015	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly	Journal Article
Geospatial Patterns of Precurrsor Behavior among Terrorists	June 2011	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Fitzpatrick, Kevin; Roberts, Paxton	START Reports
The Situated Contexts of American Terrorism: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations	April 2019	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeff	Journal Article
Research Brief: Validation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative	March 2015	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeffrey; Freilich, Joshua; Roberts, Paxton; Chermak, Steven; Parkin, William	Research Brief
Piracy and Counter-Piracy Cooperation in Southeast Asia (2000-2014)	July 2015	Stevenson, John	Research Brief
What Do The Dead Say? The Architecture of Salvific Discourses in Post-Genocide Rwanda	June 2015	Stevenson, John	Journal Article
Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa'ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014	December 2014	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Research Brief
Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa'ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014	November 2014	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	START Reports
An Examination of the American Far Right’s Anti-Tax Financial Crimes	April 2019	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
The Nexus between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting	July 2014	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Report
Financial Crimes Perpetrated by Far-Right Extremists in the United States: 1990-2013	June 2015	Sullivan, Brandon; Gruenewald, Jeff; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven; Parkin, William	Research Brief
Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration	March 2008	Useem, Bert	Book
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners	August 2009	Useem, Bert; Clayton, Obie	Journal Article
Research Brief: Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset	December 2019	Washburn, Rhyner; Sin, Steve	Research Brief
Understanding Recruitment to Organized Crime and Terrorism	June 2020	Weisburd, David	Book
Terrorist Recidivism in Israel: Rates, Patterns and Risk Factors	June 2020	Weisburd, David	Book Chapter
Reducing the Gap in Perceptions of Legitimacy of Victims and Non-victims: The Importance of Police Performance	April 2016	Weisburd, David	Journal Article
Policing Terrorism, Crime Control, and Police-Community Relations: Learning from the Israeli Experience	July 2014	Weisburd, David	Book
Protocol: Increased Police Patrol Presence Effects on Crime and Disorder	July 2016	Weisburd, David	Journal Article
Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives	August 2006	Weisburd, David	Book
Terrorist behavior in hostage taking: Policy issues and research directions	November 2005	Wilson, Margaret	Book Chapter
Motivations and Characteristics of Hate Crime Offenders	October 2020	Yates, Elizabeth; Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	Research Brief
Violent Hate Crime Offenders	October 2020	Yates, Elizabeth; Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	Research Brief
Characteristics and Targets of Mass Casualty Hate Crime Offenders	November 2020	Yates, Elizabeth; Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	Research Brief
Radicalization in the Ranks	April 2022	Yates, Elizabeth; Jensen, Michael; Kane, Sheehan	START Reports
Perspectives on Cybersecurity Information Sharing among Multiple Stakeholders Using a Decision-Theoretic Approach	August 2017	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article

Title	Byline
START produces new data tool exploring crimes committed by U.S. QAnon offenders
Hate crime is a national security issue	William Braniff
New analysis of hate crime in America: Mass casualty hate crime offenders	Jessica Rivinius
New research reveals tremendous diversity in hate crime offenders’ backgrounds and motivations	Jessica Rivinius
START launches Terrorism 360 podcast	Jessica Rivinius
Pre-radicalization criminal activity is strongest predictor of post-radicalization violent extremism	Jessica Rivinius
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines	Valerie Snaman
Designing Danger: Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors	Jessica Rivinius
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter?	Erin Miller
The Audacity of Hype: Why International Cooperation will easily defeat Piracy in Southeast Asia	John Stevenson, Garett Tippin
Research finds probable pathways and chokepoints for human smuggling along U.S.-Mexico border	Jessica Rivinius
Financing terrorism through trade diversion	Lauren Sagl
START Director's China visit opens door for future scholarly collaboration	Laura Walker
A closer look at the 2,600 terrorist attacks in US, 1970-2012
START Newsletter: Global terrorism increasing; GTD 2012 dataset released; New cyber research
Study finds that warning banners deter hackers	Mary Beck
Background Report: Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
START adds third course to summer line-up
START researchers available to discuss radioactive material stolen in Mexico	Jessica Rivinius
Discussion Point: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Methodological Advancements in Data Collection and Coding: Insights from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Michael Jensen
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Junior Researcher, Global Terrorism Database
START Newsletter: Intelligence and security; perspectives on terrorism; Hezbollah; 'big data' and coding
Discussion Point: Embrace "Big Data," but don't ignore the human element in data coding	Peter S. Henne, Jonathan Kennedy
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Data Collection Manager
Violent hate crimes offer insights into lone-actor terrorism	Jessica Rivinius
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Hourly Research Assistant, Failure Points in Smuggling Networks
START Symposium showcases impactful research, datasets	Mary Beck, Jessica Rivinius
Researcher Spotlight: Jeff Gruenewald	Keri Enriquez
Researcher Spotlight: Ronald Breiger	Emily Smith
Hybrid political criminal organizations pose RN smuggling threat
START study assesses attacks by environmental and animal rights extremists	Emily Smith
Assessing the likelihood of Hate Crime in wake of Boston Attacks
Americans more likely to think about terrorism than violent crime	Andres Feijoo
Call for papers for a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence on "Criminological approaches to the study of terrorism"	Joshua Freilich, Gary LaFree
START researchers present work on transnational criminal organizations, terrorism and radiological/nuclear (RN) smuggling
Researcher Spotlight: Kelly Damphousse	Mary Beck
Research Roundtable event features START researcher Brandon Behlendorf	Mary Beck
LaFree gives talk at Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
LaFree recognized as field leader by American Society of Criminology	Samantha Goldman
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research	Jessica Rivinius
Urban U.S. counties hot spots of terror, but rural areas are not exempt	Jessica Rivinius
New research examines financial crime and political extremism
START investigators present research at national conference
Now Hiring: Senior Researcher, Terrorism and Counterterrorism
REPORT RELEASE: ICSR/START Report on Prison Radicalisation to be Launched at New York Summit
Applications Being Accepted for START's Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Studies
New Dataset on Ethnically Based Organizations Released
START Researcher Awarded Stockholm Prize in Criminology
New, Updated Data on Global Terrorist Activity Now Available
START Welcomes New Advisory Board Member
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START Hosts DHS Faculty/Student Research Teams

Title	Job Title	Institution
Aaron Safer-Lichtenstein	Former Researcher: Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Amy Pate	START Executive Director and Research Director	University of Maryland
Barnett S. Koven	Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
Bo Jiang	Graduate Research Assistant, START	University of Maryland
Brandon Behlendorf	Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
Elena Akers	Researcher/Junior Data Collection Manager, START	University of Maryland
Gary LaFree	Founding Director, START; Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice	University of Maryland
Jeff Gruenewald	Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas	University of Arkansas
Joseph Oudin	Data Collection Manager Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Joshua Freilich	Professor	John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Karina Panyan	Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START	University of Maryland
Laura Dugan	Ralph Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology	The Ohio State University
Marcus A. Boyd	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START Director of Graduate Studies, START	University of Maryland
Margaret Hayden	Researcher, GTD	University of Maryland
Megan Rutter	Junior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Michael Jensen	Senior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Peter Simi	Associate Professor, Chapman University Director, Earl Babbie Research Center	Chapman University
Prabhakar Misra	Professor of Physics	Howard University
Rebecca (Becca) Earnhardt	PhD student Research Associate, Stimson Center	University of Maryland
Salma Bouziani	Project Manager/Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Samuel D. Henkin	Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Sheehan Kane	Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START	University of Maryland
Steve Sin	Director, Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) Subject Matter Expert Instructor, National Center for Security & Preparedness	University of Maryland
Thomas Guarrieri	Director of Undergraduate Studies Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons & Technology (UWT) Division, START	University of Maryland
Tyler Yates	Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	University of Maryland
Victor Asal	Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration	University at Albany, State University of New York