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                            Funding & Awards
 The Operation and Structure of Right-Wing Extremist Groups
Award Information
Awardee
              Board of Regents of the Univ of NE, Univ of NE at Omaha
Award #
              2006-IJ-CX-0027
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Omaha, NE
Congressional District
              2
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2006
Total funding (to date)
              $144,140
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY06 ORE Terrorism
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2006, $144,140)
The purpose of this exploratory study is to improve the threat assessment of extremist group violence.  The P.I. will do this by posing a series of research questions related to the operation and structure of Right-Wing Extremist (RWE) groups in the United States.  These questions are:
'What types of recruitment strategies do right-wing extremist groups utilize to gain new members?
'How are right-wing extremist groups organized?
'Are there individual and group-level characteristics that distinguish right-wing extremists who limit their support of terrorist activity to violent rhetoric from right-wing extremists who actually commit or plan to commit acts of terrorism?
The project will combine the threat assessment model designed by the U.S. Secret Service with threshold models of collective behavior in order to compare advocates of extremist violence with implementers of extremist violence.  This comparison will shed light on the development of ideas and behaviors that eventually result in extremist violence.
The project has two principle objectives: 1) compare right-wing extremists who advocate terrorism but have not committed such acts with those who extend upon violent rhetoric and actually commit these acts; and 2) Identifying internal processes related to organizational planning and group roles including how RWE groups recruit new members.  This analysis will rely on the PI existing data and the American Terrorism Study data focusing on individual, group, and situational-level characteristics.  Between 1997 and 2005, the PI collected data that includes in-depth life history interviews and observations of 89 right-wing extremists.  The interviews focus on how subjects were recruited and different characteristics related to group dynamics and participation.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      American Swastika: Inside the white power movement's hidden spaces of hate
                  Cycles of right-wing terror in the US
                  Military experience, identity discrepancies, and far right terrorism: An exploratory analysis
                  Right-wing radicalism today
                  The tipping point to terrorism: Involvement in right-wing terrorist groups in the United States
                  Why study white supremacist terror? A research note

  
Date Created: September 12, 2006
    
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