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              Page2The terrorist age‐crime curve: An analysis of American Islamist terrorist offenders and age‐specific propensity for participation in violent and nonviolent incidents
    
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March 2016
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          NIJ-SponsoredA community-level comparison of terrorism movements in the United States
    
        Date Published

2016
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          Research (Applied/Empirical)
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          NIJ-SponsoredLaw Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat
    
        Date Published

June 2015
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          Research (Applied/Empirical)
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          NIJ-SponsoredOverview: Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States-Foreign Fighters (PIRUS-FF)
    
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2016
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          Research (Applied/Empirical)
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          NIJ-SponsoredThe Changing Threat Landscape of Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Implications for Research and Policy
    
        January 2022
      
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                  Research for the Real World

            This panel will provide an overview of the current terrorist threat landscape, how it has changed in the last five to ten years, and strategies to best address this threat at the local and national levels. Emphasis will be placed on how several key events in 2021 have shaped the way we think about research and policy in the fields of radicalization and extremism. Panelists will provide data on fluctuations of the most imminent terrorist threats posed to the U.S.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyTerrorism Research Before and After 9/11
    
        June 2011
      
  Series
                  NIJ Conference

            The tragedy of 9/11 posed unprecedented challenges to forensic science, social science, and physical science and technology — the three bedrock sciences at NIJ. Recovering from the attack and preventing another one have became topmost priorities in the 10 years since the attack. As we approach the 10th anniversary, Gary LaFree discusses how that fateful day impacted social scientific priorities and the outcomes from those changes.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyEngaging With Communities To Prevent Violent Extremism: A Review of the Obama Administration's CVE Initiative, Executive Summary
    
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August 2019
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          NIJ-SponsoredAdvancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 1
    
        November 2020
      
            In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyTerrorist Age-Crime Curve: An Analysis of American Islamist Terrorist Offenders and Age-Specific Propensity for Participation in Violent and Nonviolent Incidents
    
        Date Published

March 2016
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                        Report (Study/Research),
                        Report (Grant Sponsored),
                        Program/Project Description
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          NIJ-SponsoredCommodities and Terrorist Financing: Focus on Diamonds
    
        Date Published

2006
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          Report (Study/Research)
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          NIJ-SponsoredToward a Behavioral Model of "Homegrown" Radicalization Trajectories
    
        Date Published

January 2016
    Publication Type
          Research (Applied/Empirical),
                        Report (Study/Research),
                        Report (Grant Sponsored),
                        Program/Project Description
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          NIJ-SponsoredIstishad as an Ideological and Practical Tool in the Hands of Al-Qaeda
    
        Date Published

May 2008
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          Issue Overview
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          NIJ-SponsoredMulti-Faceted Roles of Women Inside Al-Qaeda
    
        Date Published

May 2008
    Publication Type
          Report (Study/Research)
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          NIJ-SponsoredDomestic Radicalization Research Yields Possible Keys to Identifying Extremists on the Path to TerrorismThe Role of Social Media in the Evolution of Al-Qaeda Inspired Terrorism
    
        Date Published

September 2017
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          Research (Applied/Empirical),
                        Report (Study/Research),
                        Report (Grant Sponsored)
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          NIJThe Role of Social Media in the Evolution of Al-Qaeda-Inspired TerrorismBehavioral Study of the Radicalization Trajectories of American "Homegrown" Al Qaeda-Inspired Terrorist Offenders
    
        Date Published

August 2016
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          Research (Applied/Empirical),
                        Report (Study/Research),
                        Report (Grant Sponsored)
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          NIJ-SponsoredRole of Social Networks in the Evolution of Al Qaeda-Inspired Violent Extremism in the United States, 1990-2015
    
        Date Published

June 2016
    Publication Type
          Research (Applied/Empirical),
                        Report (Study/Research),
                        Report (Grant Sponsored)
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          NIJ-SponsoredSocial Learning and Social Control in the Off and Online Pathways to Hate and Extremist Violence - Year 2
    
        2015-ZA-BX-0004
      
            Closed
      
  Funding First Awarded
              2016

            $313,621Terrorism Research Before and After 9/11 - Interview With Gary LaFree
    
        Date Published

June 2011
    Publication Type
          Presentation (Multimedia),
                        Issue Overview,
                        Interview,
                        Conference Material
  Agencies
          NIJCommunity-Level Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism
    
        March 2016
      
  Series
                  Research for the Real World

            In this video three internationally-renowned experts from the research and practitioner arenas discuss how community policing can be used to prevent violent extremism and reduce violence within communities.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicySocial Learning and Social Control in the Off and Online Pathways to Hate and Extremist Violence
    
        2015-ZA-BX-0004
      
            Closed
      
  Funding First Awarded
              2015

            $386,194Prisoner Recollections: The Role of Internet Use and Real-Life Networks in the Early Radicalization of Islamist Terrorist Offenders
    
        2013-ZA-BX-0005
      
            Closed
      
  Funding First Awarded
              2013

            $148,941Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization
    
        February 2013
      
            Interview with Gary Ackerman, Director for Special Projects, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

Mr. Ackerman is conducting an empirical assessment of domestic radicalization, with an emphasis on the process of radicalization. In this interview, Ackerman explains how he is using large empirical analysis and small scale life study analysis to discover which factors might cause an individual to make the leap from illegal terrorist behavior to violent terrorist behavior.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyCommunity Policing Strategies for Countering Violent Extremism
    
        February 2013
      
            February 2013
Interview with David Schanzer, J.D., Associate Professor, Duke University and Director, Triangle Center of Terrorism and Homeland Security

Mr. Schanzer discusses his study of community policing strategies for countering violent extremism. Schanzer points out that there is a wide variety of terrorist ideologies from religious, to environmental, to economic. He is hoping to discover if particular community policing strategies are more effective in countering certain types of terrorism and building resilience against extremism.
      
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