The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism

Notes on Contributors viii
 
Part I Introduction 1
 
Bringing Criminology into the Study of Terrorism 3
Gary LaFree and Joshua D. Freilich
 
Part II Etiology 15
 
1 The Etiology of Radicalization 17
Randy Borum
 
2 Psychological Factors in Radicalization: A "3 N" Approach 33
David Webber and Arie W. Kruglanski
 
3 What Makes Them Do It? Individual-Level Indicators of Extremist Outcomes 47
John P. Sawyer and Justin Hienz
 
4 The Terrorists' Planning Cycle: Patterns of Pre-incident Behavior 62
Brent L. Smith, Paxton Roberts, and Kelly R. Damphousse
 
5 Group-level Predictors of Political and Religiously Motivated Violence 77
Katharine A. Boyd
 
6 Country-level Predictors of Terrorism 93
Nancy A. Morris and Gary LaFree
 
Part III Theories 119
 
7 General Strain Theory and Terrorism 121
Robert Agnew
 
8 Social Learning Theory and Becoming a Terrorist: New Challenges for a General Theory 133
J. Keith Akins and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr.
 
9 The Situational Approach to Terrorism 150
Henda Y. Hsu and Graeme R. Newman
 
10 Victimization Theories and Terrorism 162
William S. Parkin
 
11 Analyzing Radicalization and Terrorism: A Situational Action Theory 175
Per-Olof H. Wikström and Noémie Bouhana
 
Part IV Research Methods 187
 
12 Measuring Terrorism 189
Laura Dugan and Michael Distler
 
13 Paradigmatic Case Studies and Prison Ethnography: Future Directions in Terrorism Research 206
Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij
 
14 Social Network Analysis and Terrorism 221
Aili Malm, Rebecca Nash, and Ramin Moghadam
 
15 Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Terrorism and Insurgency 232
Shane D. Johnson and Alex Braithwaite
 
16 Applying Multilevel Models to Terrorism Research 244
Brian D. Johnson
 
17 Methodological Advances in the Study of Terrorism: Using Latent Class Growth Analysis to Estimate Terrorism Trends 260
Nancy A.

Gary LaFree is Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and a Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. His most recent book (with Laura Dugan and Erin Miller) is Putting Terrorism in Context (2015).
 
Joshua D. Freilich is a member of the Criminal Justice Department and the Criminal Justice PhD Program at John Jay College. He is the Creator and co-Director of the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), an open source relational database of violent and financial crimes committed by political extremists in the U.S.