Joshua Freilich: Criminology and Terrorism Studies - a podcast by John F. Morrison

Joshua D. Freilich is a member of the Criminal Justice Department at John Jay College. He is the Creator and co-Director of the United States Extremist Crime Database, an open source relational database of crimes committed by political extremists in the U.S. Freilich is the Vice Chair of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Terrorism & Bias Crimes. He has been a member of START (a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence) since 2006 and on its executive committee since 2010. Freilich is on the GTD’s advisory board and his research has been funded by DHS and the National Institute of Justice. His terrorism research focuses on the causes of and responses to terrorism. Recent works have looked at county-level variation in extremist violence, and the efficacy of interventions to counter this violence. Freilich’s other research looks at bias crimes, measurement issues, and environmental criminology and crime prevention.

Some research that has influenced Joshua's career

Ronald V. Clarke, R.V. & Graeme R. Newman (2006). Outsmarting the terrorists.

Gary LaFree, G. & Laura Dugan (2007). Introducing the Global Terrorism Database.

Brent L. Smith. (1994). Terrorism in America: Pipe bombs and pipe dreams.

Some of Joshua's key research

Comparing extremist perpetrators of suicide and non-suicideattacks in the United States. With William S. Parkin, Jeff Gruenewald and Steven M. Chermak (In press)

The future of terrorism research: A review essay. With Steven M. Chermak and Jeff Gruenewald (2015)

Investigating the applicability of macro-level criminology theory to terrorism: A county-level analysis. With Amy Adamczyk, Steven M. Chermak, Katharine Boyd and
William S. Parkin (2015).

Introducing the United States Extremist Crime Database(ECDB). With Steven M. Chermak, Roberta Belli, Jeff Gruenewald and
William S. Parkin (2014).

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