Research on disengagement from violent extremism is an emerging field of inquiry. As
compared to the related field of radicalization, there have been fewer studies of …

Terrorist organizations are both imitative and innovative in character. While the drivers of
imitation have been extensively modeled using concepts such as contagion and diffusion …

Most groups do less violence than they are capable of. Yet while there is now an extensive
literature on the escalation of or radicalisation towards violence, particularly by …

Abstract Research summary We compare European and North American radicalization
trajectories that led to involvement in terrorist violence (n= 103) with those for which this …

In this paper, a unique dataset of improvised explosive device attacks during “The Troubles”
in Northern Ireland (NI) is analysed via a Hawkes process model. It is found that this past …

Although there has recently been a considerable increase in research into lone actor
terrorism, one of the main areas that remains understudied is that of target selection. The …

A popular stereotype is that women will play more minor roles than men as environments
become more dangerous and aggressive. Our analysis of new longitudinal data sets from …

A cost–benefit analysis of terrorist attacks is developed and placed within a systematic
theoretical structure. For the target or object of the attack, we consider the lost value of …

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies charts the growth and
development, foundations, key debates, and core concerns of Perpetrator Studies, an …

In this paper we provide a presentation of the most popular metrics and systematically apply
them to seven terrorist networks studied in the literature and to three new ISIS-affiliated …