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                            Funding & Awards
 Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization
Award Information
Awardee
              University of Maryland
Award #
              2012-ZA-BX-0005
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    College Parrk, MD
Awardee County
              Prince George''s
Congressional District
              4
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2012
Total funding (to date)
              $675,027
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 12 Research on Domestic Radicalization
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $675,027)
This project will attempt to dramatically advance the empirical basis for understanding domestic radicalization by answering four key questions.  First, are there important differences (contextual, personal, ideological or experiential) between radicals and/or the radicalization processes of those who accept the personal use of violence for political purposes and those who only engage in non-violent criminality? Second, what is the relationship between radical beliefs and radical behavior? Third, are there differences between radicals and radicalization processes within different ideological milieus? Fourth, how strongly supported by the empirical evidence are extant radicalization theories?
Using public sources, the project will collect datasets of attributes for approximately 1,800 individuals indicted in the United States for violent and non-violent radical crimes, equally divided between the Islamist, far left and far right milieus, detailed qualitative case studies of the life-course histories and quantitative radicalization trajectories of approximately 120 violent and non-violent radicals across these milieus. The analysis will be conducted within the life course paradigm, which provides a model for understanding how similarly situated individuals may follow divergent pathways by drawing attention to trajectories and transitions, turning points, and individual contingencies that characterize longitudinal behavioral trajectories. Specifically, the analysis will include: a robust qualitative and quantitative assessment of a representative range of extent theories of radicalization; an innovative expansion of the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) methodology; and logit/probit models with latent variable analyses.
In addition to the academic benefits of advancing theory and methods, the combination of large sample sizes and variation on the dependent variable in this project will make it possible to draw inferences that will be both valid and generalizable about who might be at risk of radicalizing. The ability to make these inferences is absolutely critical for focusing limited resources within the White House's countering violent extremism (CVE) campaign where they will be most effective. Moreover, START's highly developed transition channels will ensure that the findings from this study will be efficiently disseminated to relevant policymakers. ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      The Link Between Prior Criminal Record and Violent Political Extremism in the United States
                  Prison and Violent Political Extremism in the United States
                  What Makes Them Do It? Individual-Level Indicators of Extremist Outcomes
                  Government Policies for Counteracting Violent Extremism
                  Research Provides Guidance on Building Effective Counterterrorism Programs
                  Domestic Radicalization Research Yields Possible Keys to Identifying Extremists on the Path to Terrorism
                  Correlates of Violent Political Extremism in the United States
                  Criminology theory and terrorism: New applications and approaches
                  Quest for Significance and Violent Extremism: The Case of Domestic Radicalization
                  Studying Terrorism Empirically: What We Know About What We Don't Know
                  Final Report: Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR)
                  Overview: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters (PIRUS-FF)
                  Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS): An Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization
                  Profiles of individual radicalization in the United States: Preliminary findings
                  Understanding the threat: What data tell us about US foreign fighters

  
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