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 Across the Universe?  A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types with Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education
Award Information
Awardee
              University of Massachusetts Lowell
Award #
              2013-ZA-BX-0002
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Lowell, MA
Awardee County
              Middlesex
Congressional District
              3
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2013
Total funding (to date)
              $530,298
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 13  Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2013, $530,298)
This award will produce a two-year program of research to develop a series of studies comparing the behavioral underpinnings of three types of U.S.-based offenders since 1990: solo-terrorists, lone-actor terrorists, and individuals who engage in mass casualty violence but lack an ideological motivation. In particular this research program compares the developmental, antecedent behavioral and ideological factors that crystallize within the offender and are later expressed behaviorally via the offense itself. This program of research seeks to understand whether (dis)similarities are observable across these offender types and what the relevant implications are for law enforcement. 

To address these questions, the research program contains three sub-projects drawing on distinctive research methods. Each observation will be coded using a 180+ variable codebook previously developed in a Department of Homeland Security funded project. These sub-projects focus upon (a) a descriptive trend analysis of pre-crime commission behaviors in order to understand what behaviors occur commonly across these three offense types and which behaviors are increasing in extent longitudinally (b) a comparative analysis of between offender types to investigate whether distinct behavioral profiles are apparent and (c) a sequential analysis of the planning and execution of offenses using crime scripting methodologies. 

By providing empirically informed and practitioner-oriented research, the project will deliver an evidential basis for informing multiple facets of investigative practice both within and across offense and offender types. 

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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Similar crimes, similar behaviors? Comparing lone-actor terrorists and public mass murderers
                  Understanding Domestic Radicalization and Terrorism: A National Issue Within a Global Context
                  Shared Struggles? Cumulative Strain Theory and Public Mass Murderers From 1990 to 2014
                  Shared Struggles? Cumulative Strain Theory and Public Mass Murders From 1990 to 2014
                  Domestic Radicalization Research Yields Possible Keys to Identifying Extremists on the Path to Terrorism
                  Public Mass Murderers and Federal Mental Health Background Checks
                  Shooting Alone: The Pre-Attack Experiences and Behaviors of U.S. Solo Mass Murderers
                  Shooting Alone: The Pre-Attack Experiences and Behaviors of US Solo Mass Murderers
                  What Can We Learn From the Similarities and Differences Between Lone Wolf Terrorists and Mass Murderers?
                  Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types With Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education
                  Indicators of Lone Actor Violent Events: The Problems of Low Base Rates and Long Observational Periods




  
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                      https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38226.v1

  
Date Created: September 19, 2013
    
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