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
Everything, everywhere, all at once: Looking at the current milieu through Rapoport's four waves theory of modern terrorism
- Joel Elson , Alexis d'Amato , Isaac Moelter , Erin Kearns , Austin Doctor
- Threats, Terrorism, Theory
Understanding the current mileu through Rapoport’s four waves theory of modern terrorism.
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The mobility of terror: Examining the decision to travel or remain home in US ISIS cases from 2014-2025
The decision to travel versus remain home for ISIS-affiliated defendants in U.S. federal courts.
Read MoreHomegrown: U.S. federal cases against ISIS
- Seamus Hughes , Callie Vitro , Camden Carmichael , Mackenzie Harms , Austin Doctor
- Isis, Courts, Hgve
The current state of U.S. federal cases against ISIS
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