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Crime and Terrorism

Title Sort ascending Investigators Project Period
Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset Barnett S. Koven -
United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), 1990-2010 Joshua Freilich, Roberta Belli, Steven Chermak -
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Roberta Belli -
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 -
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 -
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States Erin Miller, Michael Jensen -
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization Barnett S. Koven, Ramon F. Brena -
Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen -
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners Bert Useem, Obie Clayton -
Radicalization in the Ranks Michael Jensen, Sheehan Kane -
Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks Erin Miller -
Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Experience David Weisburd -
Patterns of U.S. Extremist Crime Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, William Parkin -
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 S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Open-Source Geospatial Analysis of Criminal Activity Marcus A. Boyd -
International and Regional Architecture Reports Brandon Behlendorf, Emily Iarocci, Gary Ackerman, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance Marcus A. Boyd -
Extremist Crime Database Related Projects Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database Marcus A. Boyd -
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah Barnett S. Koven, Samuel D. Henkin -
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space Steve S. Sin, Ph.D., Marcus A. Boyd -
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven, William Braniff -
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+ Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Creation of a Database of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2005 Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin Barnett S. Koven -
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict Brandon Behlendorf, Gary LaFree -
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban Barnett S. Koven -
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs William Braniff -
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders Michael Jensen, Gary LaFree -
A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs Gary LaFree, Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz -
Project Title Sort ascending Publication Date Publication Type
When the Levee Breaks: A Global Trend of Cyber-Physical and Cyber-Operational Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure and Future Implications on the Great Power Competition 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
When Terrorists Go Bad: Analyzing Terrorist Organizations' Involvement in Drug Smuggling 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations Are Involved in the Drug Trade 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism 2024-01-04T12:00:00 Journal Article
What Do The Dead Say? The Architecture of Salvific Discourses in Post-Genocide Rwanda 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Weapon Choice and American Political Violence: A Comparison of Terrorists and Other Felons in Federal Custody 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
War Versus Criminal Justice in Response to Terrorism: The Losing Logic of Torture 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Violent Hate Crime Offenders 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Violence in Peru 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia 2010-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Understanding Recruitment to Organized Crime and Terrorism 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book
Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism 2013-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Understanding Community Responses to Authority/Law Enforcement Minority-Outreach Intergroup Communication Frames 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Trends and Characteristics of Terrorist Attacks Against Nightclub Venues Over 5 Decades 2024-01-30T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Geospatial Tool 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
TOC as a Growing Threat to Regional, Global Security 2022-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together? 2009-10-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Trust Paradox in Nuclear Smuggling 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): Examining Recidivism Rates for Post-9/11 Offenders 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Situated Contexts of American Terrorism: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Development of Narco-Submarines 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Book
The Perils of Simultaneous COIN and Counternarcotics in Peru and Colombia 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Paradox of the Heavy-handed Insurgent: Public Support for the Taliban Among Afghan Pashtuns. 2022-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Opium Trade and Patterns of Terrorism in the Provinces of Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Obama Administration and Peru 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Nexus between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Report
The Link Between Prior Criminal Record and Violent Political Extremism in the United States 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Intersection of Homicide, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Illicit Drug Trade, Counternarcotics Strategies and Terrorism 2011-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Book
The Growing Importance of Criminology in the Study of Terrorism 2007-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Evolution of Peru’s Shining Path and the New Security Priorities in the Hemisphere 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Differential Risk of Retaliation by Relational Distance: A More General Model of Violent Victimization 2005-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The “New” Face of Transnational Crime Organizations (TCOs): A Geopolitical Perspective and Implications to U.S. National Security 2013-05-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Testing a Rational Choice Model of Airline Hijackings 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorists Next Door? A Comparison of Mexican Drug Cartels and Middle Eastern Terrorist Organizations 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorist Recidivism in Israel: Rates, Patterns and Risk Factors 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorist behavior in hostage taking: Policy issues and research directions 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorist Attacks on US Coalition Supply Convoys and Bases in Iraq 2023-06-27T12:00:00 Research Brief
Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Criminal Attacks by Radical Environmental and Animal Rights Groups in the United States, 1970–2007 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Open Source Databases 2022-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Systemic innovation for countering violent radicalization: Systems engineering in a policy context 2024-01-18T12:00:00 Journal Article
Surveying American State Police Agencies about Lone Wolves, Far-Right Criminality, and Far-Right and Islamic Jihadist Criminal Collaboration 2010-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Structural Differences of Violent Extremist Offenders in Correctional Settings 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Sociological and Criminological Explanations of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Social Learning and Social Control in the Off- and Online Pathways to Hate Crime and Terrorist Violence 2019-03-01T12:00:00 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 2015-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Root causes of radicalization: the terror-contagion hypothesis 2023-10-16T12:00:00 Journal Article
Rethinking Alternative Development 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Research Highlight: Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism -- A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Brief: Validation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Brief: Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Reducing the Gap in Perceptions of Legitimacy of Victims and Non-victims: The Importance of Police Performance 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Reducing Terrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Radicalization in the Ranks 2022-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
QAnon-inspired Violence in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of a Misunderstood Threat 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
QAnon Offenders in the United States 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
QAnon Crimes in the United States: A Comprehensive Dataset Codebook 2021-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Protocol: Increased Police Patrol Presence Effects on Crime and Disorder 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
PROTOCOL: Criminal Justice Interventions for Preventing Terrorism and Radicalisation: An Evidence and Gap Map 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Protecting the U.S. Government from Far-Right Insider Threats 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Report
Prosecuting Terrorism: Challenges in the Post-9/11 World 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration 2008-03-01T12:00:00 Book
Prison and Violent Political Extremism in the United States 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Politics, Culture, and Political Crime: Covariates of Abortion Clinic Attacks in the United States 2007-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Policing Terrorism, Crime Control, and Police-Community Relations: Learning from the Israeli Experience 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives 2006-08-01T12:00:00 Book
Piracy and Counter-Piracy Cooperation in Southeast Asia (2000-2014) 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Perspectives on Cybersecurity Information Sharing among Multiple Stakeholders Using a Decision-Theoretic Approach 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Nuclear Smuggling and Threats to Lithuanian Security 2016-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Motivations and Characteristics of Hate Crime Offenders 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Migration, Crime, and Victimization 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Micro and Macro-Level Risk Factors for Extremism and Terrorism: Toward a Criminology of Extremist Violence 2021-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Maritime Security Initiatives: A Paper Tiger or a Concrete Solution? 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Local Approaches to Counterterrorism: The New York Police Department Model 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Leadership protection in drug-trafficking networks 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Investigating the Applicability of Macro-Level Criminology Theory to Terrorism: A County-Level Analysis 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the Special Issue on New Directions in Terrorism Research 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Intelligence Analysis within U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies: Empirical Insights from a National Sample 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
In the Shadow of 9/11: How the Study of Political Extremism Has Reshaped Criminology 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Implementing Intelligence-Led Policing: An Application of Loose-Coupling Theory 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Illegal Roaming and File Manipulation on Target Computers: Assessing the Effect of Sanction Threats on System Trespassers’ Online Behaviors 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Women Engage Homegrown Terrorism 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Many Suicide Terrorists are Suicidal? 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Has Criminology Contributed to the Study of Terrorism since 9/11? 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime? 2004-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
How Does Leadership Decapitation Affect Violence? The Case of Drug Trafficking Organizations in Mexico 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Hezbollah's Global Tentacles: A Relational Approach to Convergence with Transnational Organised Crime 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Gray Zone Crises in MENA and Eastern Europe 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Global Terrorism Database: Real-time Data Collection Pilot Evaluation 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
Geospatial Patterns of Precursor Behavior among Terrorists 2011-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization 2011-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Financial Crimes Perpetrated by Far-Right Extremists in the United States: 1990-2013 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Financial Crime and Political Extremism in the U.S. 2012-01-01T12:00:00 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 2014-12-01T12:00:00 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 2014-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship to Determine Whether They Are "Close Cousins" or "Distant Relatives" 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Exploring the Crime-Terror Nexus in the United States: A Social Network Analysis of a Hezbollah Network Involved in Trade Diversion 2015-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Expanding Criminology's Domain: The American Society of Criminology 2006 Presidential Address 2007-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Domestic Violent Extremist Targeting of the U.S. Electrical Transmission Grid 2023-11-16T12:00:00 Report
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates 2022-11-08T12:00:00 Journal Article
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Disrupting Terrorist Assassinations Through Situational Crime Prevention 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Definitions Favorable to Terrorism? SSSL and Radicalization: A Case Study Approach 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cyber-Dependent Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Review 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cyber Threat posed by North Korea and China to South Korea and US Forces Korea 2009-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States 2017-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminology's Third War: Special Issue on Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminology, Terrorism, and Serendipity 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Criminology Theory and Terrorism: New Applications and Approaches 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Criminological perspectives on extremist radicalisation and terrorist acts 2023-10-18T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus 2016-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminal Justice & Military Deaths at the Hands of Extremists 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Crime, Conflict, and the Legitimacy Trade-Off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents’ Participation in Crime 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Crime Terror Alliances and the State. Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Crime Pays: Terrorist Group Engagement in Crime and Survival 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
County-Level Correlates of Terrorist Attacks in the United States 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Countering the Inhumane: Modeling Probable Pathways for Human Smuggling and Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Cooperation and Drug Policies: Trends in Peru in the Twenty-First Century 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Comparison of Honor Killings to Anti-LGBTQ Homicides 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing Violent Extremism and Terrorism to Other Forms of Targeted Violence 2024-03-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing the Determinants of Worldwide Homicide and Terrorism 2023-08-21T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Close Cousins or Distance Relatives? The Relationship Between Terrorism and Hate Crime 2012-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Climate Change, Fish Production, and Maritime Piracy 2023-04-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Children of Terrorism Survivors: Physiological Reactions Seven Years following a Terrorist Incident 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Characteristics and Targets of Mass Casualty Hate Crime Offenders 2020-11-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Bringing Criminology into the Study of Terrorism 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Book review: Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11 By Darren E. Tromblay 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Are Honor Killings Unique? A Comparison of Honor Killings, Domestic Violence Homicides, and Hate Homicides by Far-Right Extremists 2017-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Another Tool in the Arsenal 2016-07-02T12:00:00 Research Brief
Analysis of Factors Related to Hate Crime and Terrorism 2012-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
An Examination of the American Far Right’s Anti-Tax Financial Crimes 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Alternative Scales of Extremism: The Relationship Between Scale and Predictive Measures of Extremism in the United States 2022-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
A Surveillance Banner on Compromised Computer Systems Reduces Hackers’ Active Engagement 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Mixed-Method Analysis of Fatal Attacks on Policy by Far-Right Extremists 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
’Unholy Alliances’: How Transnational Terrorists and Crime Make Common Cause 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Exploring the U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks and Trade Diversion 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
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Violent hate crimes offer insights into lone-actor terrorism
Urban U.S. counties hot spots of terror, but rural areas are not exempt
UMD Report: Conspiracy theories fueled more terror attacks in 2020
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research
The audacity of hype: Why international cooperation will easily defeat piracy in Southeast Asia
Study finds that warning banners deter hackers
START Welcomes New Advisory Board Member
START Symposium showcases impactful research, datasets
START study assesses attacks by environmental and animal rights extremists
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations
START researchers present work on transnational criminal organizations, terrorism and radiological/nuclear (RN) smuggling
START researchers available to discuss radioactive material stolen in Mexico
START Researcher Awarded Stockholm Prize in Criminology
START produces new data tool exploring crimes committed by U.S. QAnon offenders
START Newsletter: Intelligence and security; perspectives on terrorism; Hezbollah; 'big data' and coding
START Newsletter: Global terrorism increasing; GTD 2012 dataset released; New cyber research
START launches Terrorism 360 podcast
START investigators present research at national conference
START Hosts DHS Faculty/Student Research Teams
START Director's China visit opens door for future scholarly collaboration
START co-hosts workshop on the security of critical system supply chains
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START adds third course to summer line-up
Researcher Spotlight: Ronald Breiger
Researcher Spotlight: Kelly Damphousse
Researcher Spotlight: Jeff Gruenewald
Research Roundtable event features START researcher Brandon Behlendorf
Research finds probable pathways and chokepoints for human smuggling along U.S.-Mexico border
REPORT RELEASE: ICSR/START Report on Prison Radicalisation to be Launched at New York Summit
Pre-radicalization criminal activity is strongest predictor of post-radicalization violent extremism
Now Hiring: Senior Researcher, Terrorism and Counterterrorism
New, Updated Data on Global Terrorist Activity Now Available
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines
New research reveals tremendous diversity in hate crime offenders’ backgrounds and motivations
New research examines financial crime and political extremism
New Dataset on Ethnically Based Organizations Released
New analysis of hate crime in America: Mass casualty hate crime offenders
Major update to PIRUS dataset adds 955 U.S. subjects from 2019-2021
LaFree recognized as field leader by American Society of Criminology
LaFree gives talk at Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Junior Researcher, Global Terrorism Database
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Hourly Research Assistant, Failure Points in Smuggling Networks
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Data Collection Manager
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter?
Hybrid political criminal organizations pose RN smuggling threat
Hate crime is a national security issue
Financing terrorism through trade diversion
Discussion Point: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Methodological Advancements in Data Collection and Coding: Insights from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Discussion Point: Embrace "Big Data," but don't ignore the human element in data coding
Designing Danger: Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors
Call for papers for a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence on "Criminological approaches to the study of terrorism"
Background Report: Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
Assessing the likelihood of Hate Crime in wake of Boston Attacks
Applications Being Accepted for START's Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Studies
Americans more likely to think about terrorism than violent crime
A closer look at the 2,600 terrorist attacks in US, 1970-2012
Title Sort ascending Job Title Institution
Asal_Victor Victor Asal Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration University at Albany, State University of New York
Tyler yates Tyler Yates Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD) University of Maryland
Guarrieri Thomas Guarrieri Director of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons &
Technology (UWT) Division, START
University of Maryland
Steve Sin Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist & Director, Unconventional Weapons & Technology Division
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service, American University
Adjunct Instructor for Forensic Sciences, Oklahoma State University
Chief Academic Officer, Platinum East
University of Maryland
person-default Sheehan Kane Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START University of Maryland
Salma_Bouziani Salma Bouziani Project Manager/Researcher, START University of Maryland
person-default Rebecca (Becca) Earnhardt PhD student
Research Associate, Stimson Center
University of Maryland
Prabhakar misra Prabhakar Misra Professor of Physics Howard University
person-default Peter Simi Associate Professor, Chapman University
Director, Earl Babbie Research Center
Chapman University
person-default Michael Jensen Research Director and Senior Researcher, START University of Maryland
person-default Megan Rutter Junior Researcher, START University of Maryland
Margaret Margaret Hayden Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
Boyd_Marcus Marcus A. Boyd Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START
Director of Graduate Studies, START
University of Maryland
Romm madeline Madeline Romm Faculty Specialist University of Maryland
Laura Dugan Laura Dugan Ralph Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology The Ohio State University
Panyan Karina Panyan Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START University of Maryland
Joshua Freilich Joshua Freilich Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Jeff Jeff Gruenewald Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas University of Arkansas
Lafee Gary LaFree Founding Director, START
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland
elena akers Elena Akers Researcher/Junior Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
Brandon Behlendorf Brandon Behlendorf Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Bo Jiang, START Bo Jiang Graduate Research Assistant, START University of Maryland
Koven Barnett S. Koven Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
Amy Pate Amy Pate START Acting Director University of Maryland
Aaron Safer-Lichtenstein Former Researcher: Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
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Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset
United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), 1990-2010
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion
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
The Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) Database
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization
Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners
Radicalization in the Ranks
QAnon Crime Maps
Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Experience
Patterns of U.S. Extremist Crime
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
Open-Source Geospatial Analysis of Criminal Activity
International and Regional Architecture Reports
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration
GTD Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Go
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance
Extremist Crime Database Related Projects
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+
Creation of a Database of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2005
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin
Capitol Insurrection Network Map
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders
A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs