James Forest: Inter-Sections of Crime and Terrorism - a podcast by John F. Morrison

James Forest is Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Joint Special Operations University. He previously served on the faculty of the United States Military Academy (2001-2010), six of those years as Director of Terrorism Studies within the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Dr. Forest has published 20 books and dozens of journal articles, and is co-editor of the international scholarly journal Perspectives on Terrorism.


Research that has influenced his career

Walter Reich (1998), Origins of Terrorism

Bruce Hoffman (1998), Inside Terrorism

Brian Jackson, et al. (2005), Aptitude for Destruction


Some of his Key Publications

Forest, James. J.F. (2015) Essentials of Counterterrorism. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN: 9781440832833

Idler, Annette I. and Forest, James J.F. (2015) “Behavioral Patterns among (Violent) Non-State Actors.” Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 4(1): 2 (January). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/sta.er

Forest, James. J.F. (2013) Intersections of Crime and Terror. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9780415639613.

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