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Lone Actor

Title Investigators Project Period
A Toolkit for Preventing Targeted Violence on College Campuses Gary LaFree -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Radicalization of Momin Khawaja Clark McCauley, Sophia Moskalenko -
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States Erin Miller, Michael Jensen -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
A Situated Comparison of Suicide and Non-Suicide Terrorist Plots and Homicides in the United States, 1990-2014 2018-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
An Army of One: Assessing CBRN Pursuit and Use by Lone Wolves and Autonomous Cells 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Attitudes Regarding Becoming an Engaged Bystander for Targeted Violence Prevention 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Characteristics of Lone-Wolf Violent Offenders: a Comparison of Assassins and School Attackers 2013-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Deadlier in the U.S.? On Lone Wolves, Terrorist Groups, and Attack Lethality 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Discussion Point: Is Aaron Alexis part of a larger phenomenon of lone-actor grievance-based violence? 2013-09-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Far-Right Lone Wolf Homicides in the United States 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Gauging the Threat 2013-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How “Alone” are Lone-Actors? Exploring the Ideological, Signaling, and Support Networks of Lone-Actor Terrorists 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Motivates Them? 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lone-Offender Terrorists 2013-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Loners, Colleagues, or Peers? Assessing the Social Organization of Radicalization 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Patterns of Lone Actor Terrorism in the United States: Research Brief 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
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
The Emergence of Lone Wolf Terrorism: Patterns of Behavior and Implications for Intervention 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The psychology of lone-wolf terrorism 2011-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Situated Contexts of American Terrorism: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Toward a Profile of Lone Wolf Terrorists: What Moves an Individual from Radical Opinion to Radical Action 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article