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Assessing automated image analysis and compound-specific stable isotope signatures for small arms propellant differentiation and potential brand identification

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Date Published

September 2025

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Social Learning and Social Control in the Off- and Online Pathways to Hate Crime and Terrorist Violence

Journal

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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Date Published

2019

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Quest for Significance and Violent Extremism: The Case of Domestic Radicalization

Journal

Political Psychology

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Date Published

2017

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Radicalization Trajectories: An Evidence-Based Computational Approach to Dynamic Risk Assessment of "Homegrown" Jihadists

Journal

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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Date Published

2020

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Recognizing Radicalization Indicators in Text Documents Using Human-in-the-Loop Information Extraction and NLP Techniques

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Date Published

2019

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Indicators of Lone Actor Violent Events: The Problems of Low Base Rates and Long Observational Periods

Journal

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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Date Published

2016

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Emergence of Lone Wolf Terrorism: Patterns of Behavior and Implications for Intervention

Journal

Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance

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Date Published

2015

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Patterns of Lone Actor Terrorism in the United States: Research Brief

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Date Published

2015

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Key Issues and Research Agendas in Lone Wolf Terrorism

Journal

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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Date Published

2015

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism

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Date Published

2017

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Paradigmatic Case Studies and Prison Ethnography: Future Directions in Terrorism Research

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Date Published

November 2016

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Parramatta Shooting: How Much Do We Really Know About Lone Wolf Terrorists?

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Date Published

October 2015

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Lone actors: Challenges and opportunities for countering violent extremism

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Date Published

2015

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Understanding lone wolf terrorism: Global patterns, motivations and prevention

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Date Published

2012

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism

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Date Published

2016

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Handbook

Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS): An Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization

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Date Published

2015

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

What Makes Them Do It? Individual-Level Indicators of Extremist Outcomes

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Date Published

November 2019

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Activism and Radicalism in Prison: Measurement and Correlates in a Large Sample of Inmates in Texas

Journal

Justice Quarterly

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Date Published

2019

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Similar crimes, similar behaviors? Comparing lone-actor terrorists and public mass murderers

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Date Published

2021

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A Comparative Study of Initial Involvement in Gangs and Political Extremism

Journal

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Date Published

2020

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Gangs vs. Extremists: Solutions for Gangs May Not Work Against Extremism

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Date Published

October 2020

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NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Multi-Faceted Roles of Women Inside Al-Qaeda

Journal

Journal of National Defense Studies

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Date Published

May 2008

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Studying Terrorism Empirically: What We Know About What We Don't Know

Journal

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Date Published

2017

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Journal of National Defense Studies, Issue No. 6, May 2008

Journal

Journal of National Defense Studies

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Date Published

May 2008

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Publication Type

Literature Review

Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States

Journal

Justice Quarterly

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Date Published

May 2017

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)