Domestic radicalization
Investigating Key Risk Factors across Violent and Non-Violent Extremists in the United States
2020-R2-CX-0017
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$74,406
Examining Radicalization's Risk and Protective Factors: A Case-control Study of Violent Extremists, Non-criminal Extremists & Regular Homicide Offenders
2020-ZA-CX-0001
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$771,610
Characterizing and Preventing Domestic Terrorism: A Mixed-Methods Study of Five Far-Right Terrorist Groups
2020-ZA-CX-0003
Open
Funding First Awarded
2020
$998,599
Protective Factors for Violence Perpetration in Somali Young Adults: The Role of Community Belonging and Neighborhood Cohesion
Journal
Psychology of Violence
Date Published
October 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Virtually Standing Up or Standing By? Correlates of Enacting Social Control Online
Date Published
February 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Narratives of Childhood Adversity and Adolescent Misconduct as Precursors to Violent Extremism - A Life-Course Criminological Approach
Journal
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Date Published
July 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Reporting Practices of Journal Articles that Include Interviews With Extremists
Journal
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Date Published
July 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Relation of Psychosocial Factors to Diverse Behaviors and Attitudes Among Somali Refugees
Journal
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Date Published
2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Who Views Online Extremism? Individual Attributes Leading to Exposure
Journal
Computers in Human Behavior
Date Published
October 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Building Community Resilience to Violent Extremism Through Genuine Partnerships
Journal
American Psychologist
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review,
Program/Project Evaluation
Conflict Management Styles and Cybervictimization: Extending Routine Activity Theory
Journal
Sociological Spectrum
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Internet-Based Radicalization as Enculturation to Violent Deviant Subcultures
Journal
Deviant Behavior
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States
Journal
Justice Quarterly
Date Published
May 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Studying Terrorism Empirically: What We Know About What We Don't Know
Journal
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Understanding Domestic Radicalization and Terrorism: A National Issue Within a Global Context
Journal
NIJ Journal
Date Published
August 2020
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Evaluation
Understanding Domestic Radicalization and Terrorism
Date Published
August 14, 2020
A National Issue Within a Global Context
A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs
Date Published
December 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders
2019-ZA-CX-0003
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$715,752
Exploring the Social Networks of Homegrown Violent Extremist (HVE) Military Veterans
2019-ZA-CX-0002
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$1,670,395
Applying a Development Evaluation Approach to Address Community Safety and Health Challenges of Reintegration Programs in the USA
2019-ZA-CX-0001
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$1,114,933
The Mobilization Puzzle: How Individual, Group, and Situational Dynamics Produce Extremist Outcomes
2019-ZA-CX-0004
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$768,292
Director's Message: Identifying Alternatives to Exclusionary School Disciplinary Practices
"...it is imperative that we have effective ways of dealing with students’ behavior problems that do not disproportionately impact students of color."
NIJ is committed to investing in developing knowledge to improve the safety of schools. Schools across the U.S. are rightfully concerned about creating and maintaining a safe and stable environment that is conducive to student learning. Educators and policymakers have expressed concern that...
Domestic Radicalization and Terrorism
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Countering and preventing terrorism is a primary concern for state and local law enforcement agencies as well as the federal government. Terrorists are those who support or commit ideologically motivated violence to further political, social or religious goals. The goal of NIJ’s work on terrorism is to provide community leaders with evidence-based practices for bolstering resilience and...