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
Public 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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Taking terrorism on the road: American ISIS supporters and the decision whether to travel or stay home
A report on the decision to travel versus act in the homeland among ISIS-inspired persons living in the United States.
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Experimentally testing the effectiveness of webforms versus chatbots for suspicious activity reporting
Understanding the current mileu through Rapoport’s four waves theory of modern terrorism.
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