A consortium of researchers dedicated to improving the understanding of the human causes and consequences of terrorism

Crime and Terrorism

Title Investigators Project Period
A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs Gary LaFree, Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz -
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders Michael Jensen, Gary LaFree -
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs William Braniff -
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban Barnett S. Koven -
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict Brandon Behlendorf, Gary LaFree -
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin Barnett S. Koven -
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Creation of a Database of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2005 Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak -
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+ Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven, William Braniff -
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space Steve S. Sin, Ph.D., Marcus A. Boyd -
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah Barnett S. Koven, Samuel D. Henkin -
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database Marcus A. Boyd -
Extremist Crime Database Related Projects Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance Marcus A. Boyd -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
International and Regional Architecture Reports Brandon Behlendorf, Emily Iarocci, Gary Ackerman, Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Open-Source Geospatial Analysis of Criminal Activity Marcus A. Boyd -
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. -
Patterns of U.S. Extremist Crime Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, William Parkin -
Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Experience David Weisburd -
Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks Erin Miller -
Radicalization in the Ranks Michael Jensen, Sheehan Kane -
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners Bert Useem, Obie Clayton -
Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders Gary LaFree, Michael Jensen -
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization Barnett S. Koven, Ramon F. Brena -
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States Erin Miller, Michael Jensen -
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 -
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 -
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Roberta Belli -
United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), 1990-2010 Joshua Freilich, Roberta Belli, Steven Chermak -
Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset Barnett S. Koven -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
Exploring the U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks and Trade Diversion 2014-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
’Unholy Alliances’: How Transnational Terrorists and Crime Make Common Cause 2010-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
"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
A Mixed-Method Analysis of Fatal Attacks on Policy by Far-Right Extremists 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders, United States, 1990-2018 2024-07-30T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Surveillance Banner on Compromised Computer Systems Reduces Hackers’ Active Engagement 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Alternative Scales of Extremism: The Relationship Between Scale and Predictive Measures of Extremism in the United States 2022-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
An Examination of the American Far Right’s Anti-Tax Financial Crimes 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Analysis of Factors Related to Hate Crime and Terrorism 2012-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Another Tool in the Arsenal 2016-07-02T12:00:00 Research Brief
Application of Emerging-State Actor Theory: Analysis of Intervention and Containment Policies 2018-05-20T12:00:00 Journal Article
Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
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
Book review: Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11 By Darren E. Tromblay 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Bringing Criminology into the Study of Terrorism 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Characteristics and Targets of Mass Casualty Hate Crime Offenders 2020-11-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Children of Terrorism Survivors: Physiological Reactions Seven Years following a Terrorist Incident 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Climate Change, Fish Production, and Maritime Piracy 2023-04-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Close Cousins or Distance Relatives? The Relationship Between Terrorism and Hate Crime 2012-10-01T12:00:00 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
Comparing the Determinants of Worldwide Homicide and Terrorism 2023-08-21T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparing Violent Extremism and Terrorism to Other Forms of Targeted Violence 2024-03-25T12:00:00 Journal Article
Comparison of Honor Killings to Anti-LGBTQ Homicides 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Contingencies of Violent Radicalization: The Terror Contagion Simulation 2021-12-20T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cooperation and Drug Policies: Trends in Peru in the Twenty-First Century 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Countering the Inhumane: Modeling Probable Pathways for Human Smuggling and Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
County-Level Correlates of Terrorist Attacks in the United States 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Crime Pays: Terrorist Group Engagement in Crime and Survival 2017-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Crime Terror Alliances and the State. Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Crime, Conflict, and the Legitimacy Trade-Off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents’ Participation in Crime 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminal Justice & Military Deaths at the Hands of Extremists 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Background Report
Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus 2016-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Criminological perspectives on extremist radicalisation and terrorist acts 2023-10-18T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Criminology Theory and Terrorism: New Applications and Approaches 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Criminology, Terrorism, and Serendipity 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Criminology's Third War: Special Issue on Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat 2021-09-01T12:00:00 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
Cyber Threat posed by North Korea and China to South Korea and US Forces Korea 2009-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cyber-Dependent Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Review 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Definitions Favorable to Terrorism? SSSL and Radicalization: A Case Study Approach 2019-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Disrupting Terrorist Assassinations Through Situational Crime Prevention 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates 2022-11-08T12:00:00 Journal Article
Domestic Violent Extremist Targeting of the U.S. Electrical Transmission Grid 2023-11-16T12:00:00 Report
Dynamic Dimensions of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Report
Expanding Criminology's Domain: The American Society of Criminology 2006 Presidential Address 2007-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
Extreme Hatred: Revisiting the Hate Crime and Terrorism Relationship 2016-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
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
Extremists of a feather flock together? Community structures, transitivity, and patterns of homophily in the US Islamist co-offending network 2024-06-05T12:00:00 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 2014-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
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 Political Extremism in the U.S. 2012-01-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Financial Crimes Perpetrated by Far-Right Extremists in the United States: 1990-2013 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization 2011-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Geospatial Patterns of Precursor Behavior among Terrorists 2011-06-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Global Terrorism Database: Real-time Data Collection Pilot Evaluation 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
Gray Zone Crises in MENA and Eastern Europe 2017-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Hezbollah's Global Tentacles: A Relational Approach to Convergence with Transnational Organised Crime 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Does Leadership Decapitation Affect Violence? The Case of Drug Trafficking Organizations in Mexico 2015-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime? 2004-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
How Has Criminology Contributed to the Study of Terrorism since 9/11? 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Many Suicide Terrorists are Suicidal? 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
How Women Engage Homegrown Terrorism 2014-04-01T12:00:00 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
Implementing Intelligence-Led Policing: An Application of Loose-Coupling Theory 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
In the Shadow of 9/11: How the Study of Political Extremism Has Reshaped Criminology 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Intelligence Analysis within U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies: Empirical Insights from a National Sample 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the Special Issue on New Directions in Terrorism Research 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Investigating the Applicability of Macro-Level Criminology Theory to Terrorism: A County-Level Analysis 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Leadership protection in drug-trafficking networks 2015-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Local Approaches to Counterterrorism: The New York Police Department Model 2014-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Maritime Security Initiatives: A Paper Tiger or a Concrete Solution? 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Micro and Macro-Level Risk Factors for Extremism and Terrorism: Toward a Criminology of Extremist Violence 2021-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Migration, Crime, and Victimization 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Motivations and Characteristics of Hate Crime Offenders 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Nuclear Smuggling and Threats to Lithuanian Security 2016-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Perspectives on Cybersecurity Information Sharing among Multiple Stakeholders Using a Decision-Theoretic Approach 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Piracy and Counter-Piracy Cooperation in Southeast Asia (2000-2014) 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives 2006-08-01T12:00:00 Book
Policing Terrorism, Crime Control, and Police-Community Relations: Learning from the Israeli Experience 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Book
Politics, Culture, and Political Crime: Covariates of Abortion Clinic Attacks in the United States 2007-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Prison and Violent Political Extremism in the United States 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration 2008-03-01T12:00:00 Book
Prosecuting Terror in the Homeland: An Empirical Assessment of Sentencing Disparities in United States Federal Terrorism Cases 2024-03-31T12:00:00 Journal Article
Prosecuting Terrorism: Challenges in the Post-9/11 World 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Protecting the U.S. Government from Far-Right Insider Threats 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Report
PROTOCOL: Criminal Justice Interventions for Preventing Terrorism and Radicalisation: An Evidence and Gap Map 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Protocol: Increased Police Patrol Presence Effects on Crime and Disorder 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
QAnon Crimes in the United States: A Comprehensive Dataset Codebook 2021-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
QAnon Offenders in the United States 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
QAnon-inspired Violence in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of a Misunderstood Threat 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Radicalization in the Ranks 2024-12-02T12:00:00 START Reports
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Reducing Terrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Reducing the Gap in Perceptions of Legitimacy of Victims and Non-victims: The Importance of Police Performance 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Research Brief: Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Brief: Validation of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Research Highlight: Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism -- A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism 2013-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Rethinking Alternative Development 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Root causes of radicalization: the terror-contagion hypothesis 2023-10-16T12:00:00 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
Social Learning and Social Control in the Off- and Online Pathways to Hate Crime and Terrorist Violence 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Sociological and Criminological Explanations of Terrorism 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Strengths and Weaknesses of Open Source Data for Studying Terrorism and Political Radicalization 2024-06-05T12:00:00 Journal Article
Structural Differences of Violent Extremist Offenders in Correctional Settings 2015-06-01T12:00:00 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
Systemic innovation for countering violent radicalization: Systems engineering in a policy context 2024-01-18T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terror on the Blockchain: The Emergent Crypto-Crime-Terror Nexus 2024-09-11T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorism Open Source Databases 2022-03-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
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
Terrorist Attacks on US Coalition Supply Convoys and Bases in Iraq 2023-06-27T12:00:00 Research Brief
Terrorist behavior in hostage taking: Policy issues and research directions 2005-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorist Recidivism in Israel: Rates, Patterns and Risk Factors 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Terrorists Next Door? A Comparison of Mexican Drug Cartels and Middle Eastern Terrorist Organizations 2012-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Testing a Rational Choice Model of Airline Hijackings 2005-11-01T12:00:00 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
The Differential Risk of Retaliation by Relational Distance: A More General Model of Violent Victimization 2005-03-01T12:00:00 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 Growing Importance of Criminology in the Study of Terrorism 2007-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism 2016-11-01T12:00:00 Book
The Illicit Drug Trade, Counternarcotics Strategies and Terrorism 2011-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Intersection of Homicide, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Link Between Prior Criminal Record and Violent Political Extremism in the United States 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Nexus between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Report
The Obama Administration and Peru 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Opium Trade and Patterns of Terrorism in the Provinces of Afghanistan: An Empirical Analysis 2012-03-01T12:00:00 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 Perils of Simultaneous COIN and Counternarcotics in Peru and Colombia 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective 2021-09-01T12:00:00 Book
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Development of Narco-Submarines 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Situated Contexts of American Terrorism: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): Examining Recidivism Rates for Post-9/11 Offenders 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Trust Paradox in Nuclear Smuggling 2015-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Theory of an Emerging-State Actor: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Case † 2018-05-18T12:00:00 Journal Article
To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together? 2009-10-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
TOC as a Growing Threat to Regional, Global Security 2022-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Geospatial Tool 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Trends and Characteristics of Terrorist Attacks Against Nightclub Venues Over 5 Decades 2024-01-30T12:00:00 Journal Article
Tropical Nights, Burning Eyes: Chloropicrin in Hawaii 2024-09-10T12:00:00 Journal Article
Understanding Community Responses to Authority/Law Enforcement Minority-Outreach Intergroup Communication Frames 2016-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America 2009-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism 2013-09-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Understanding Recruitment to Organized Crime and Terrorism 2020-06-01T12:00:00 Book
Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia 2010-06-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Violence in Peru 2018-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Violent Hate Crime Offenders 2020-10-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
War Versus Criminal Justice in Response to Terrorism: The Losing Logic of Torture 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Weapon Choice and American Political Violence: A Comparison of Terrorists and Other Felons in Federal Custody 2009-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What Do The Dead Say? The Architecture of Salvific Discourses in Post-Genocide Rwanda 2015-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism 2024-01-04T12:00:00 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
When Terrorists Go Bad: Analyzing Terrorist Organizations' Involvement in Drug Smuggling 2014-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
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
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A closer look at the 2,600 terrorist attacks in US, 1970-2012
Americans more likely to think about terrorism than violent crime
Applications Being Accepted for START's Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Studies
Assessing the likelihood of Hate Crime in wake of Boston Attacks
Background Report: Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
Call for papers for a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence on "Criminological approaches to the study of terrorism"
Designing Danger: Complex Engineering by Violent Non-State Actors
Discussion Point: Embrace "Big Data," but don't ignore the human element in data coding
Discussion Point: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Methodological Advancements in Data Collection and Coding: Insights from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Financing terrorism through trade diversion
Hate crime is a national security issue
Hybrid political criminal organizations pose RN smuggling threat
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter?
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Data Collection Manager
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Hourly Research Assistant, Failure Points in Smuggling Networks
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Junior Researcher, Global Terrorism Database
LaFree gives talk at Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
LaFree recognized as field leader by American Society of Criminology
Major update to PIRUS dataset adds 955 U.S. subjects from 2019-2021
New analysis of hate crime in America: Mass casualty hate crime offenders
New Dataset on Ethnically Based Organizations Released
New research examines financial crime and political extremism
New research reveals tremendous diversity in hate crime offenders’ backgrounds and motivations
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines
New, Updated Data on Global Terrorist Activity Now Available
Now Hiring: Senior Researcher, Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Pre-radicalization criminal activity is strongest predictor of post-radicalization violent extremism
REPORT RELEASE: ICSR/START Report on Prison Radicalisation to be Launched at New York Summit
Research finds probable pathways and chokepoints for human smuggling along U.S.-Mexico border
Research Roundtable event features START researcher Brandon Behlendorf
Researcher Spotlight: Jeff Gruenewald
Researcher Spotlight: Kelly Damphousse
Researcher Spotlight: Ronald Breiger
START adds third course to summer line-up
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START co-hosts workshop on the security of critical system supply chains
START Director's China visit opens door for future scholarly collaboration
START Hosts DHS Faculty/Student Research Teams
START investigators present research at national conference
START launches Terrorism 360 podcast
START Newsletter: Global terrorism increasing; GTD 2012 dataset released; New cyber research
START Newsletter: Intelligence and security; perspectives on terrorism; Hezbollah; 'big data' and coding
START produces new data tool exploring crimes committed by U.S. QAnon offenders
START Researcher Awarded Stockholm Prize in Criminology
START researchers available to discuss radioactive material stolen in Mexico
START researchers present work on transnational criminal organizations, terrorism and radiological/nuclear (RN) smuggling
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations
START study assesses attacks by environmental and animal rights extremists
START Symposium showcases impactful research, datasets
START Welcomes New Advisory Board Member
Study finds that warning banners deter hackers
The audacity of hype: Why international cooperation will easily defeat piracy in Southeast Asia
Top-ranked criminology journal features START research
UMD Report: Conspiracy theories fueled more terror attacks in 2020
Urban U.S. counties hot spots of terror, but rural areas are not exempt
Violent hate crimes offer insights into lone-actor terrorism
Title Job Title Institution
Aaron Safer-Lichtenstein Former Researcher: Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Amy Pate Amy Pate START Acting Director University of Maryland
Koven Barnett S. Koven Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
Bo Jiang, START Bo Jiang Graduate Research Assistant, 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
elena akers Elena Akers Researcher/Junior Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
Lafee Gary LaFree Founding Director, START
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice 		University of Maryland
Jeff Jeff Gruenewald Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas University of Arkansas
Joshua Freilich Joshua Freilich Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Panyan Karina Panyan Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START University of Maryland
Laura Dugan Laura Dugan Ralph Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology The Ohio State University
Leah Peckham Leah Peckham Research Assistant, START University of Maryland
Romm madeline Madeline Romm Faculty Specialist University of Maryland
Boyd_Marcus Marcus A. Boyd Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START
Director of Graduate Studies, START 		University of Maryland
Margaret Margaret Hayden Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
person-default Megan Rutter Researcher, START University of Maryland
person-default Michael Jensen Research Director and Senior Researcher, START University of Maryland
person-default Peter Simi Associate Professor, Chapman University
Director, Earl Babbie Research Center
 Chapman University
Prabhakar misra Prabhakar Misra Professor of Physics Howard University
person-default Rebecca (Becca) Earnhardt PhD student
Research Associate, Stimson Center 		University of Maryland
Salma_Bouziani Salma Bouziani Project Manager/Researcher, START University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START University of Maryland
person-default Sheehan Kane Researcher/Data Collection Manager, START University of Maryland
Steve S. Sin Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist & Director, Unconventional & Asymmetric Threats 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
Guarrieri Thomas Guarrieri Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons &
Technology (UWT) Division, START 		University of Maryland
Tyler yates Tyler Yates Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD) University of Maryland
Asal_Victor Victor Asal Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration University at Albany, State University of New York
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A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs
A Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders
Anti-Terrorism Assistance Programs
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban
Building a Unified Infrastructure for Data Integration on Political Violence and Conflict
Community-oriented Policing and Community Engagement in Benin
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex
Creation of a Database of U.S. Extremist Crime, 1990-2005
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Developing Integrated Radiological and Nuclear Detection Architecture for the Interior and International Mission Space
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups
Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah
Expand the Transnational Illicit Trafficking (TransIT) Database
Extremist Crime Database Related Projects
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance
GTD Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration
International and Regional Architecture Reports
Open-Source Geospatial Analysis of Criminal Activity
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
Patterns of U.S. Extremist Crime
Police Responses to Terrorism: Lessons from the Israeli Experience
Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks
QAnon Crime Maps
Radicalization in the Ranks
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners
Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization
Terrorism and Targeted Violence in the United States
The Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) Database
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
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion
United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), 1990-2010
Weapons Availability and Civil War Onset