WHO WE ARE
We are a collaborative team of criminologists based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha passionate about research and its application for counterterrorism efforts. Our team includes faculty and graduate students from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center.
OUR RESEARCH
Collectively, our team provides new insight into terrorism offenders and terrorist networks, the prosecution of terrorism and terrorism-related criminal activities, threat assessment and management, and the reentry of terrorism offenders. Our work has been generously funded by multiple sources including the Department of Homeland Security. Recent and ongoing project initiatives have focused on:
- Securing public events
- Disrupting transnational organized criminal networks
- Terrorist use of unmanned systems
- Youth terrorist mobilization
- Sentencing of homegrown violent extremists in the United States
Project Highlights
A snapshot of some of our recent work
A common psychology of male violence? Assessing the effects of misogyny on intentions to engage in violent extremism, interpersonal violence and support for violence against women
Aims to address the limited research on the links between misogyny, violent extremism, and gender-based violence.
Read MoreExamining the impacts of a gamified media literacy intervention in Indonesia
Examining an attempt to integrate messaging applications and gamified approaches to deploy media literacy interventions.
Read MorePublic or private violence? Understanding the overlap between intimate partner abuse and susceptibility to violent extremism
Understanding the overlap between intimate partner abuse and violent extremism.
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