Far-right and Jihadi terrorism within the United States: From September 11th to January 6th

L Dugan, D Fisher - Annual Review of Criminology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
As tens of thousands swarmed the US Capitol Grounds on January 6th, 2021, to oppose the
election of Joe Biden as President, thousands among them assaulted officers and breached …

The theorizing of terrorism within criminology

D Fisher, EM Kearns - Journal of Research in Crime and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: While terrorism studies were once castigated as atheoretical and unempirical,
criminology has been well suited to apply theories of crime to terrorism and to then test those …

Radicalized environmental extremism and situational decision making

TC Barnum, MK Logan - Journal of Research in Crime and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: In this study, we investigate extremists' appraisals of and sensitivity to perceived
sanction risk during the commission of arson. We pay specific attention to the decision …

A comprehensive application of rational choice theory: how costs imposed by, and benefits derived from, the US federal government affect incidents perpetrated by the …

JV Carson, L Dugan, SM Yang - Journal of quantitative criminology, 2020 - Springer
Objectives In this study, we examine the effect of both the costs and benefits of perpetration,
along with the rewards of abstention, on the behavior of a uniquely rational, yet frequent …

Country-level firearm availability and terrorism: A new approach to examining the gun-crime relationship

JV Carson, R Dierenfeldt… - Journal of research in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: This study examines the association between a country's gun availability and
firearm-related terrorism. Methods: Employing data from 140 countries, we assess the …

Examining the state repression‐terrorism nexus: Dynamic relationships among repressive counterterrorism actions, terrorist targets, and deadly terrorist violence in …

HY Hsu, D McDowall - Criminology & Public Policy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary This study assesses the impact of state repressive counterterrorism
actions on terrorists' targeting and lethality of the terrorism landscape in Israel. Using …

Successful for whom?: an examination of the general deterrent impact of the targeted killing of terrorist leaders on global terrorist fatalities

D Fisher, MH Becker - Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Targeted killings are a prominent strategy for combatting terrorism and are regularly claimed
to deter political violence. Employed against terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden and …

Desistance from terrorism

D Fisher - Theories of Terrorism, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Understanding how and why people and groups desist from committing acts of terrorism is a
central but understudied topic. As recent findings suggest that recidivism from terrorism is …

Criminological perspectives on extremist radicalisation and terrorist acts

G LaFree, Y Yanez - The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the past two decades, research on radicalisation, political extremism, and terrorism has
become one of the fastest growing sub-fields within criminology. In this chapter, we identify a …

Can Proscription Fuel Violence?: The Case of Boko Haram

C Thalmann - 2024 - diva-portal.org
This research explores the impact of proscription on non-state groups' behaviour,
specifically regarding their use of violence. Recognizing that counterterrorism measures …