Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Part I Introduction 1
Bringing Criminology into the Study of Terrorism 3Gary LaFree and Joshua D. Freilich
Part II Etiology 15
1 The Etiology of Radicalization 17Randy Borum
2 Psychological Factors in Radicalization: A “3 N” Approach 33David Webber and Arie W. Kruglanski
3 What Makes Them Do It? Individual‐Level Indicators of Extremist Outcomes 47John P. Sawyer and Justin Hienz
4 The Terrorists’ Planning Cycle: Patterns of Pre‐incident Behavior 62Brent L. Smith, Paxton Roberts, and Kelly R. Damphousse
5 Group‐level Predictors of Political and Religiously Motivated Violence 77Katharine A. Boyd
6 Country‐level Predictors of Terrorism 93Nancy A. Morris and Gary LaFree
Part III Theories 119
7 General Strain Theory and Terrorism 121Robert Agnew
8 Social Learning Theory and Becoming a Terrorist: New Challenges for a General Theory 133J. Keith Akins and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr.
9 The Situational Approach to Terrorism 150Henda Y. Hsu and Graeme R. Newman
10 Victimization Theories and Terrorism 162William S. Parkin
11 Analyzing Radicalization and Terrorism: A Situational Action Theory 175Per‐Olof H. Wikström and Noémie Bouhana
Part IV Research Methods 187
12 Measuring Terrorism 189Laura Dugan and Michael Distler
13 Paradigmatic Case Studies and Prison Ethnography: Future Directions in Terrorism Research 206Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij
14 Social Network Analysis and Terrorism 221Aili Malm, Rebecca Nash, and Ramin Moghadam
15 Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Terrorism and Insurgency 232Shane D. Johnson and Alex Braithwaite
16 Applying Multilevel Models to Terrorism Research 244Brian D. Johnson
17 Methodological Advances in the Study of Terrorism: Using Latent Class Growth Analysis to Estimate Terrorism Trends 260Nancy A. Morris
18 Interrupted Time Series Analysis in the Study of Terrorism 276Robert Apel and Henda Y. Hsu
Part V Types of Terrorism 295
19 Far Right Terrorism in the United States 297Pete Simi and Bryan F. Bubolz
20 Left‐wing Terrorism: From Anarchists to the Radical Environmental Movement and Back 310Jennifer Varriale Carson
21 Assessing Aerial Hijacking as a Terrorist Tactic 323Susan Fahey
22 Evolution of Suicide Attacks 339Ami Pedahzur and Susanne Martin
23 Terrorist Assassinations: A Criminological Perspective 353Marissa Mandala
Part VI Terrorism and Other Types of Crime 37124 Organized Crime and Terrorism 373Enrique Desmond Arias and Nazia Hussain
25 Similar from a Distance: A Comparison of Terrorism and Hate Crime 385Ryan D. King, Laura M. DeMarco, and Robert J. VandenBerg
26 Studying Extremist Homicide in the United States 402Jeff Gruenewald and Brent R. Klein
27 Financial Terror: Financial Crime Schemes Involving Extremists Linked to the American Far Right and al‐Qaeda and Affiliated Movements 420Brandon A. Sullivan, Joshua D. Freilich, and Steven M. Chermak
28 An Empirical Analysis of Maritime Terrorism Using the Global Terrorism Database 433Bo Jiang
Part VII Countering Terrorism 449
29 Empowering Communities to Prevent Violent Extremism: A Report on the August 2014 National Summit 451Stevan Weine and William Braniff
30 Terrorist Plots the United States: What We have Really Faced, and How We Might Best Defend Against It 468Kevin J. Strom, John S. Hollywood, and Mark W. Pope
31 The Ten Commandments for Effective Counterterrorism 482Simon Perry, David Weisburd, and Badi Hasisi
32 Prosecuting Terrorism post‐9/11: Impact of Policy Changes on Case Outcomes 495Christopher A. Shields, Brent L. Smith, and Kelly R. Damphousse
33 Prisons: Their Role in Creating and Containing Terrorists 508Margaret A. Zahn
34 The Individual Risk Assessment of Terrorism: Recent Developments 520John Monahan
35 Legislative Efforts to Prevent Eco‐terrorist Attacks 535Yi‐Yuan Su and Sue‐Ming Yang
36 On the Relevance of Cyber Criminological Research in the Design of Policies and Sophisticated Security Solutions against Cyberterrorism Events 553David Maimon and Alexander Testa
Index 568