The handbooks in this series will be comprehensive, academic reference works on leading topics in criminology and criminal justice.

The Handbook of Law and Society
Edited by Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick

The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
Edited by Marvin D. Krohn and Jodi Lane

The Handbook of Deviance
Edited by Erich Goode

The Handbook of Gangs
Edited by Scott H. Decker and David C. Pyrooz

The Handbook of Criminological Theory
Edited by Alex R. Piquero

The Handbook of Drugs and Society
Edited by Henry H. Brownstein

The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism
Edited by Gary LaFree and Joshua D. Freilich

Robert Agnew is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology at Emory University. His research focuses on the causes of crime and delinquency, especially general strain theory. Recent books include Juvenile Delinquency: Causes and Control (with Timothy Brezina, Oxford University Press, 2015) and Toward a Unified Criminology: Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society (New York University Press, 2011).

J. Keith Akins is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Houston–Victoria. He is a disabled veteran of the US Army. Prior to his current appointment, he taught at New Mexico State University and, before that, he was an Investigative Researcher with the Anti‐Defamation League. His research interests include terrorists and the perpetrators of hate crimes.

Robert Apel is an associate professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University, Newark. His research interests include the intersections of the labor market, crime control policy, and the life course.

Enrique Desmond Arias is an associate professor of public policy in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University. He is the author of Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) and co‐editor of Violent Democracies in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2010).

Randy Borum is a professor and director of intelligence studies in the School of Information at the University of South Florida. He previously served on the Director of National Intelligence’s Intelligence Science Board (ISB), and has studied behavioral dynamics in violent extremism and counterintelligence. He has authored/co‐authored more than 150 professional publications, and currently serves as senior editor for the Journal of Strategic Security and for Military Cyber Affairs.

Noémie Bouhana is a senior lecturer in security and crime science at University College London, where she leads the Counter‐Terrorism Research Group. Her research addresses the causes of terrorist propensity development. She directs the €2.9 million EU FP7 PRIME project on lone‐actor terrorism and was recently selected to receive a US$1 million Minerva grant to study the social ecology of radicalization. Her recent publications have appeared in Legal and Criminological Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Katharine A. Boyd is a criminology lecturer in the Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy department at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on terrorism and other forms of violence and crime and the use of quantitative methods in social science.

Alex Braithwaite is an associate professor of international relations in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. His research addresses the causes and geography of various forms of violent and non‐violent political conflict, including terrorism and insurgency. His research appears in Journal of Politics, Criminology, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Terrorism and Political Violence, among others.

William Braniff is the executive director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. He has previously served as an officer in the US Army, as a federal employee at the National Nuclear Security Agency, and as the director of practitioner education at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. His research focuses on domestic and international terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE).

Bryan F. Bubolz is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research interests include street gangs, violent extremism, domestic terrorism, and desistance. Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, American Behavioral Scientist, and The Sociological Quarterly.

Jennifer Varriale Carson holds a PhD from the University of Maryland in criminology and criminal justice. Her work focuses on policy evaluation, particularly the use of quasi‐experimental methods in assessing counterterrorism efforts, and can be found in a number of published works including the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Deviant Behavior, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

Steven M. Chermak is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He studies the criminal and terrorist activities of US extremists. His work has primarily focused on analysis of data in the United States Extremist Crime Database—a national open‐source database that includes data on the violent and financial crimes committed by extremists in the United States. His recent publications have appeared in Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Crime and Delinquency.

Kelly R. Damphousse serves as dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and as Presidential Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. He has served as the co‐editor of Social Science Quarterly since 2010 and as associate director of The American Terrorism Study since 1994. His terrorism research with Brent L. Smith has been published in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Criminology and Public Policy, and the International Journal of Contemporary Sociology.

Laura M. DeMarco is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Ohio State University. Her research interests focus on crime and intergroup conflict and the consequences of incarceration.

Michael Distler is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a research assistant at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), working on data collection for the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). His research interests include terrorist tactics, situational crime prevention, and policing.

Laura Dugan is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Her research examines the consequences of violence and the efficacy of violence prevention/intervention policy and practice. She co‐authored Putting Terrorism into Context: Lessons Learned from the World’s Most Comprehensive Terrorism Database (Routledge, 2014). She has also written more than 50 journal articles and book chapters.

Susan Fahey is an associate professor of criminal justice at Stockton University. Dr. Fahey is the co‐coordinator of Stockton University’s homeland security track and criminal justice concentration, as well as coordinator of its internship program. Her research interests include failed states and terrorism, right‐wing extremism, terrorist targeting and organizations, and the collection of terrorism databases. She previously worked on the Global Terrorism Database at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

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 United States. His research has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). His research focuses on the causes of and responses to terrorism, measurement issues, bias crimes, and criminology theory, especially environmental criminology and crime prevention.

Jeff Gruenewald is an assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is also a research affiliate and investigator for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START Center). His recent research addresses issues of domestic terrorism, homeland security, and homicide. His work has appeared in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Criminology and Public Policy, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

Mark S. Hamm is a former prison warden from Arizona and currently a professor of criminology at Indiana State University and a senior research fellow at the Terrorism Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. In the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote widely about right‐wing extremists in the United States, as well as on subjects as diverse as apocalyptic violence, cop‐killer rap, and ethnography and terror. His books include The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat (NYU Press, 2013); Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al‐Qaeda and Beyond (NYU Press, 2007); In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground (Northeastern University Press, 2002); Apocalypse in Oklahoma: Waco and Ruby Ridge Revenged (Northeastern University Press, 1997); and American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime (Praeger Publishers, 1993). He received three major grants from the National Institute of Justice: one to study crimes committed by terrorist groups; one to study terrorist recruitment in American correctional institutions; and one to study lone wolf terrorism in America. He is the author, with Ramon Spaaij, of the forthcoming book, The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism: A New History.

Badi Hasisi serves as the chair of the Institute of Criminology, at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His area of research focuses on policing terrorism and homeland security. His work on terrorism was published in Law and Society Review, The American Journal of Law and Economics, and Terrorism and Political Violence, as well as in a book on the Israeli experience of policing terrorism. He also serves as executive editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Justin Hienz is a religious extremism expert at the University of Southern California Safe Communities Institute (SCI). He was co‐author of “Foreign Fighters: Terrorist Recruitment and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Programs in Minneapolis–St. Paul,” a 2015 DHS National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) field study of terrorist radicalization and recruitment in Minneapolis, MN. At SCI, Hienz’s research focuses on religious extremism in largely immigrant communities.

John S. Hollywood, PhD, is a senior operations researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He conducts research on information analysis methods to prevent violence, from crime to terrorism to counterinsurgency. Recent publications include Predicting Suicide Attacks: Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets (with W. Perry, C. Brown, & A. Jaycocks)) and Uncertainty‐Sensitive Heterogeneous Information Fusion: Assessing Threat with Soft, Uncertain, and Conflicting Evidence (with P. Davis, Walter Perry, & D. Manheim).

Henda Y. Hsu is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. His research interest is in situational crime and terrorism prevention, the displacement of crime and terrorist attacks, and policing.

Nazia Hussain is a doctoral candidate at the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University, and a research scholar at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. Her research focuses on crime and terror groups who are playing a political role in violent informal orders of megacities in developing countries. She has authored a book chapter on urban conflict in Karachi (Pakistan) and co‐authored a study focusing on how elite players are reconfiguring power and contributing to global inequality.

Bo Jiang is a doctoral student studying at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland. First‐place winner of the 2014 American Society of Criminology Division of International Criminology student paper award, his research interests include terrorism, human trafficking, and maritime piracy.

Brian D. Johnson is an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland. His research interests include various aspects of courtroom decision‐making and social inequality in punishment, as well as the use of advanced statistical techniques to study the criminal process.

Shane D. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London. His research explores how methods from different disciplines can inform understanding of crime and security issues, and the extent to which theories developed to explain everyday crimes can explain more extreme events. He has published over 100 book chapters and articles in journals including Criminology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.

Ryan D. King is a professor of sociology and an associate director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at the Ohio State University. His research and teaching interests include hate crime, political extremism, and criminal punishment.

Brent R. Klein is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. His research interests include terrorism and extremist violence, homeland security, crime prevention, communities and crime, and immigration. His recent work on terrorism has appeared in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

Arie W. Kruglanski, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. His research is on human judgment and decision‐making, motivation, group processes, and the psychology of terrorism. He has received the SPSP Donald Campbell, SESP Distinguished Scientific Contribution, and Senior Humboldt Research Awards, among others.

Gary LaFree is a 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. He is currently a fellow of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), and has served as president of the ASC and of its Division on International Criminology. His research is on the causes and consequences of violent crime and terrorism.

David Maimon is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include cybercrime, experimental methods, and community and crime.

Aili Malm is an associate professor in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management at California State University Long Beach. Her research interests center on the intersection between policing and social policy. Her peer‐reviewed publications appear in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Crime and Delinquency, Social Networks, International Journal of Drug Policy, and others.

Marissa Mandala is a doctoral student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a double major in international relations and political science and a minor in forensics and criminality. She received her master’s in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include assassination as a terrorist tactic and situational crime prevention.

Susanne Martin is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Ramin Moghadam is a graduate student in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management at California State University Long Beach. His research interests include terrorism, the application of social network analysis to terrorist networks, and the effects of employment on recidivism.

John Monahan is the Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he is also a professor of psychology, psychiatry, and neurobehavioral sciences. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nancy A. Morris is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Her research examines the etiology of antisocial and criminal behavior, cross‐national country‐level lethal violence (homicide and terrorism) over time, and patterns of crime at micro‐places.

Rebecca Nash is an assistant professor at California State University Long Beach. Her research interests are concentrated in white‐collar crime, terrorism, and counterterrorism. Her research in these areas has an interdisciplinary focus, applying quantitative research methods and network theory and methods to examine illicit networks. Most recent publications include two chapters in the book Social Networks, Terrorism and Counter‐terrorism: Radical and Connected (edited by Martin Bouchard; Routledge, 2015).

Graeme R. Newman is a distinguished teaching professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, and associate director of the Center for Problem‐Oriented Policing. Major works on terrorism include Policing Terrorism: An Executive’s Guide (with R. V. Clarke; US Department of Justice, 2008); Outsmarting the Terrorists (with R. V. Clarke; PSI International, 2006); Reducing Terrorism through Situational Crime Prevention (with Joshua D. Freilich; Criminal Justice Press, 2010); “Rational Choice and Terrorist Target Selection” with Henda Y. Hsu in Countering Terrorism: Psycho‐social Strategies (edited by Updesh Kumar and Manas K. Mandal; Sage, 2011); and “Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing: A script approach” with Hiropoulos, Freilich, and Chermak in Cognition and Crime (edited by Benoit Leclerc and Richard Wortley; Routledge, 2013).

William S. Parkin is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Seattle University. His research focuses on terrorism and extremism in the United States, homicide victimization, and the relationship between the media and criminal justice. He has published in Terrorism and Political Violence, Homicide Studies, Sociological Spectrum, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Simon Perry is a senior lecturer at Hebrew University’s Institute of Criminology. His research, which focuses on counterterrorism and homeland security, has been published in: Criminal Justice and Behavior, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Police Practice and Research. He served 30 years in Israel’s National Police and is an expert in intelligence operations, organized crime, and international terror. He retired in 2007 after serving in the United States as attaché at the rank of brigadier general.

Ami Pedahzur is the Arnold S. Chaplik Professor in Israel and Diaspora Studies and professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mark W. Pope is a research social scientist in RTI International’s Policing, Security, and Investigative Science Program. His research and publications have focused on how information technology is used in law enforcement, improving the use of and access to law enforcement data; the impact of forensic science on the criminal justice system; and the role that law enforcement plays in homeland security.

Paxton Roberts is the assistant director of the Terrorism Research Center in Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas. He has managed data collection, migration, and integration on numerous NIJ and DHS grants. Paxton’s expertise involves database management, data collection and coding processes, and geospatial and temporal analyses. Paxton has an MA in Geography and is currently completing a PhD in Public Policy at the University of Arkansas.

John P. Sawyer is a START senior researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was the initial principal investigator on a US National Institute of Justice–funded project (2012‐ZA‐BX‐0005) to apply life‐course analysis to a large sample of individual radicalization trajectories across various ideologies in the United States. This project and its successors have produced the largest open‐source database on individual radicalization to date, Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS).

Christopher A. Shields is a project manager for the Terrorism Research Center in Fulbright College and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas. His current research focuses on the prosecutorial and defense strategies in US Federal Terrorism trials, the effectiveness of investigation and counterterrorism policies in the United States, as well as federal and state responses to human trafficking.

Pete Simi is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His research interests include social movements, street and prison gangs, and juvenile delinquency. In particular, his work focuses on the relationship between personal and collective identities and participation in different types of violence.

Brent L. Smith is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Terrorism Research Center in Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas. He founded the American Terrorism Study in 1987 in collaboration with the FBI’s Terrorism Research and Analytical Center. He has been the principal investigator on over a dozen federally funded research projects related to terrorism. Smith’s published works on terrorism have appeared in Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Criminology and Public Policy, and other scholarly outlets. He is the author of Terrorism in America: Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams (SUNY Press, 1994).

RamÓn Spaaij, PhD, is a sociologist based at the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing (CCDW) and the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL) at Victoria University, Australia. He is also professor by special appointment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include the sociology of terrorism and the sociology of sport. His recent books include Understanding Lone Wolf Terrorism: Global Patterns, Motivations and Prevention (Springer, 2012).

Kevin J. Strom is a program director at RTI International, where he leads the Policing, Security, and Investigative Science Program. He has led numerous research projects in areas related to policing and forensics and has published on topics that include the use of data to improve policing outcomes, increasing efficiencies for forensic evidence processing, and identifying common aspects of terrorism pre‐operational surveillance. He serves on the research advisory committees for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).

Yi‐Yuan Su is an assistant professor in Department of Law, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and has served as the Special Recruited Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University, Japan. His concentration is international environmental law and climate change law. He has published several English and Chinese articles in many journals, including SSCI and SCI journals. He is also co‐author of several books concerning Taiwan’s environmental laws and Southeast Asia legal studies.

Brandon A. Sullivan, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Anti‐Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A‐CAPP) at Michigan State University and serves as co‐principal investigator for the US Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) Financial Crimes project. He is also a research affiliate with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). His research examines links between financial crimes (including material support and product counterfeiting) and terrorism and extremism.

Alexander Testa is a PhD student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include the consequences of incarceration, macrostructural perspectives of crime and interpersonal violence, criminal punishment, and criminal justice policy.

Robert J. VandenBerg is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Ohio State University. His research interests include terrorism, criminology, peace, war, and social conflict.

Stevan Weine, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, where he is also director of the International Center on Responses to Catastrophes and director of Global Health Research Training at the Center for Global Health. He is the author of When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia‐Herzegovina (Rutgers, 1999) and Testimony and Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (Northwestern University Press, 2006).

David Webber is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include the psychological processes behind radicalization, deradicalization, and existential threat.

David Weisburd is Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, and Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University. His work on terrorism has focused on its impact on policing. More recently, he has begun a large European Commission study on recruitment to terrorist groups. He is the 2010 recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize.

Per‐Olof H. Wikström, PhD, FBA, is a professor of ecological and developmental criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. His main research interests include developing a unified theory of the causes of crime (situational action theory), its empirical testing (PADS+), and its application to devising knowledge‐based prevention policies. His recent publications include the co‐authored book Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People’s Urban Crime (OUP, 2013) and the book chapters “Why Crime Happens: A Situational Action Theory” in Analytical Sociology: Actions and Networks (edited by Gianluca Manzo; Wiley, 2014) and “Explaining Crime as Moral Actions” in Handbook of the Sociology of Morality (edited by Steven Hitlin and Stephen Vaisey; Springer Verlag, 2010).

L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., retired from New Mexico State University in 2012. He is the co‐author of seven textbooks in numerous editions, including Social Learning Theories of Crime (Ashgate, 2012) with Christine S. Sellers and Ronald L. Akers. He has authored or co‐authored over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and continues to contribute to the criminological literature, particularly in juvenile delinquency. His research interests include youth gangs, both domestic and international.

Sue‐Ming Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She received her PhD from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include place‐based criminology, urban disorder, criminological theory testing, experimental research methods, and international terrorism. Her recent works appear in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Prevention Science, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and Criminology and Public Policy.

Margaret A. Zahn is a professor of criminology/sociology and former dean of North Carolina State University, where she teaches courses on violence, terrorism and public policy. She has edited or co‐edited five books in the area of violence and delinquency, and has published over 50 articles on violent offending, the most recent being on criminal recidivism of homicide offenders. She is a past president, elected fellow, and Herbert Block Award winner of the American Society of Criminology.