Extremist Crime Database Related Projects

Project Details

Abstract:

The Extremist Crime Database was created by Joshua Freilich and Steven Chermak to better understand extremist crime in the United States. The national database first included information on the perpetrators, victims, event, and group characteristics of crimes committed by members of the domestic far-right, but has since been expanded to include information on crimes by the far-left, religious extremists and single-issue extremists.  

The Extremist Crime Database is part of the Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the U.S. (TEVUS) database.

Related Projects (Chronological Order):

  • Creation of a Database of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2005: This project built a national database on the perpetrators, victims, event, and group characteristics of crimes committed by members of the domestic far-right. More specifically, it focuses on illegal acts committed by far right extremists whose criminal activity span a wide variety of acts
  • United States Extremist Crime Database, 1990-2010: This project involves (1) systematic collection of open-source data on non-violent and violent criminal behavior associated with far right-wing extremist groups, including data on event, perpetrator, and victim, all integrated into a relational database; (2) statistical analyses of data, to include: descriptive analyses, bivariate analysis and multivariate regressions, and time-series analyses.
  • U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion: This project will conduct an exploratory network analysis of a large network of Islamic extremists and non-extremist criminal associates prosecuted by US Federal courts for their involvement in terrorism financing schemes based on trade diversion.
  • Radicalization Clusters? Geographic Concentrations of Violent Extremism and Terrorism in the United States: This project is designed to (1) identify geographical areas that have experienced the highest levels of to terrorist violence and extremist crime during the past 20 years; and (2) explore factors that might serve to foster violent extremism.
  • Patterns of U.S. Extremist Crime: The research team will conduct analyses designed to understand both the scope of criminal activities (including but not limited to terrorism) in which extremists have engaged in the United States and how the nature of this activity varies across different types of political extremism.

Selected Publications