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Keep up with the latest evidenced-based research from the federal government and government-funded entities. Academic studies and government reports are the backbone for prevention efforts nationwide. Evidence-based research is available for the general public, educators, law enforcement, health care practitioners, behavioral and mental health professionals, and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.
Each set of resources below is searchable by keyword. You can also filter the results to see the resources most relevant to different stakeholder groups (key audience) and which department/agency/office provided the resource, as well as filter by subcategory.
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This Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) report provides an overview of current research and programming efforts to integrate targeted violence and terrorism prevention (TVTP) information and practice into three-digit call lines, such as 211 and 311 assistance and information telephone numbers, as well as 911 and 988 emergency and crisis support lines.
(Published 2024)
This National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-sponsored research examines the relationship between social control and social learning variables on involvement in violent vs. non-violent extremism.
(Published 2021)
This National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-sponsored study examined how combinations of factors, including situational and target-specific attributes, influence terrorist target selection by extreme far-right and radical Islamic terrorists.
(Published 2020)
This National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-sponsored research identifies common barriers and facilitators related to whether family members, friends, or co-workers of violent extremists who are aware of their attitudes and spoken plans report their concerns to public safety authorities, and 10 recommendations are offered for improving such reporting.
(Published 2021)
This National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-sponsored research combines the perspectives of those who chose an extremist path with the unique insights of family and friends to gain knowledge of why people radicalize or exit extremism.
(Published 2022)
This National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-sponsored research reports on an exploratory study that builds on the risk factor model of violent extremism; their paper highlights the roles of childhood adversity and adolescent misconduct as nonideological precursors to violent extremism among different types of extremists.
(Published 2022)
This National Institute of Justice (NIJ) article posits that to increase knowledge and aid prevention efforts, the research community must develop a strategy to source, code, check, and analyze the data surrounding rare violent incidents.
(Published 2024)
This National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-sponsored research describes an examination of what is needed to help intimate bystanders share information with law enforcement about potential acts of violent extremism or targeted violence.
(2022)
This study developed a comparative model that emphasizes explicit, spurious, and indirect linkages between domestic extremists and gang members, and it used national sources of data on domestic extremists and gang members the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to compare them across group involvement, demographic, family, religion, and socioeconomic status characteristics.
(May 2017)
NIJ-supported research shows that trauma exposure and mental health issues can have a significant yet varied impact across the violence prevention spectrum.
(April 2024)
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