A Multi-level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Revolutionary or terrorist groups
American Swastika: Inside the white power movement's hidden spaces of hate
Date Published
2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Social Media and Domestic Radicalization
October 2022
Series
Social media has become a potent tool for spreading extremist beliefs and promoting violent extremism. NIJ Social Science analyst Aisha Javed Qureshi joins writer-editor Paul Haskins for a conversation about how scientific research is helping law enforcement and other agencies understand and address this growing concern.
Loners, Colleagues, or Peers? Assessing the Social Organization of Radicalization
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Organizational [Dis]trust: Comparing Disengagement Among Former Left-Wing and Right-Wing Violent Extremists
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism
Date Published
2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The terrorist age‐crime curve: An analysis of American Islamist terrorist offenders and age‐specific propensity for participation in violent and nonviolent incidents
Date Published
March 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Legislation Specifically Targeting the Use of the Internet to Recruit Terrorists
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Psychology of Terrorism
Date Published
2004
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ
Extreme Ideologies, Situational Factors, and Terrorists’ Target Selection
Date Published
May 2020
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Disengagement from ideologically-based and violent organizations: A systematic review of the literature
Date Published
2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
From Successful Reentry to Stronger Communities
May 2022
Series
What is reentry? Why is it important? And what research is being done in this field? NIJ Journal Editor Beth Pearsall hosts a conversation on reentry with Senior Science Advisor Angela Moore, Senior Social Science Analyst Marie Garcia, and Social Science Analyst Eric Martin.
Recruitment and selection in violent extremist organizations: Exploring what industrial and organizational psychology might contribute
Date Published
2017
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
A community-level comparison of terrorism movements in the United States
Date Published
2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat
Date Published
June 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Understanding the threat: What data tell us about US foreign fighters
Date Published
2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Overview: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters (PIRUS-FF)
Date Published
2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Activism and Radicalism in Prison: Measurement and Correlates in a Large Sample of Inmates in Texas
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Organizational Dis trust Comparing Disengagement Among Former Left-Wing and Right-Wing Violent Extremists
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Terrorism Research Before and After 9/11
June 2011
Series
The tragedy of 9/11 posed unprecedented challenges to forensic science, social science, and physical science and technology — the three bedrock sciences at NIJ. Recovering from the attack and preventing another one have became topmost priorities in the 10 years since the attack. As we approach the 10th anniversary, Gary LaFree discusses how that fateful day impacted social scientific priorities and the outcomes from those changes.
Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy
Engaging With Communities To Prevent Violent Extremism: A Review of the Obama Administration's CVE Initiative, Executive Summary
Date Published
August 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 1
November 2020
In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy
Multi-Faceted Roles of Women Inside Al-Qaeda
Date Published
May 2008
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Palestinian Women in Terrorism: Protectors or Protected?
Date Published
May 2008
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Creating a Data Archive to Facilitate Research on Understanding and Responding to Terrorism (From Understanding Terrorism: Analysis of Sociological and Psychological Aspects, P 306--317, 2007, Suleyman Ozeren, Ismail Dincer Gunes, et al., -- See NCJ-225410)
Date Published
2007
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored