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Adrian Cherney is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a focus on several subfields including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, nature and landscape conservation, political science and international relations, and health.

The main areas of research addressed by Cherney include terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence; crime patterns and interventions; wildlife conservation and criminology analyses; suicide and self-harm studies; policing practices and perceptions; crime, illicit activities, and governance; and migration, health, and trauma.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Adam Sutton, Richard White, Garner Clancey, Emma Belton, and Kristina Murphy.

Common publication venues where Cherney has contributed include:

  • Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
  • Campbell Systematic Reviews
  • Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Journal of Criminology
  • The British Journal of Criminology

Recent publications by Adrian Cherney encompass:

  • "Understanding youth radicalisation: an analysis of Australian data" (2020) in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
  • "The push and pull of radicalization and extremist disengagement: The application of criminological theory to Indonesian and Australian cases of radicalization" (2021) in Journal of Criminology

Other relevant works where they are not the primary author but associated through collaboration include:

  • "Building Immigrants' Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants' Willingness to Cooperate with Police" (2021) in The British Journal of Criminology
  • "Police programmes that seek to increase community connectedness for reducing violent extremism behaviour, attitudes and beliefs" (2020) in Campbell Systematic Reviews
  • "Multiagency programs with police as a partner for reducing radicalisation to violence" (2021) in Campbell Systematic Reviews

In terms of book publications, Cherney has contributed to works published by the Australian Institute of Criminology eBooks and Cambridge University Press. Titles include:

  • "Testing the reliability and validity of the VERA-2R on individuals who have radicalised in Australia" (2024)
  • "Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: The case of the VERA-2R" (2024)
  • "Crime Prevention" (2021)

Best Publications

  • Understanding Cooperation With Police in a Diverse Society

    Kristina Murphy;Adrian Cherney

  • Fostering cooperation with the police: How do ethnic minorities in Australia respond to procedural justice-based policing?

    Kristina Murphy;Adrian Cherney

  • Ethnicity, trust and cooperation with police: testing the dominance of the process-based model

    Elise Sargeant;Kristina Murphy;Adrian Cherney

  • Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives and Practices

    Adam Sutton;Adrian Cherney;Rob White

  • Do Policy Makers Use Academic Research? Reexamining the "Two Communities" Theory of Research Utilization

    Joshua Newman;Adrian Cherney;Brian W. Head

  • Being a ‘suspect community’ in a post 9/11 world – The impact of the war on terror on Muslim communities in Australia:

    Adrian Cherney;Kristina Murphy

  • Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Policing

    Lorraine Mazerolle;Elise Sargeant;Adrian Cherney;Sarah Bennett

  • Policy capacity and evidence-based policy in the public service

    Joshua Newman;Adrian Cherney;Brian W. Head

  • Support for Terrorism: The Role of Beliefs in Jihad and Institutional Responses to Terrorism

    Adrian Cherney;Kristina Murphy

  • What Influences the Utilisation of Educational Research by Policy-Makers and Practitioners?: The Perspectives of Academic Educational Researchers.

    Adrian Cherney;Jenny Povey;Brian Head;Paul Boreham

  • Are policy-makers interested in social research? Exploring the sources and uses of valued information among public servants in Australia

    Brian Head;Michele Ferguson;Adrian Cherney;Paul Boreham

  • The importance of procedural justice and police performance in shaping intentions to cooperate with the police: Does social identity matter?

    Kristina Murphy;Elise Sargeant;Adrian Cherney

  • Policing terrorism with procedural justice: The role of police legitimacy and law legitimacy

    Adrian Cherney;Kristina Murphy

  • Finding and Keeping a Job The Value and Meaning of Employment for Parolees

    Adrian Cherney;Robin Fitzgerald

  • Community engagement to tackle terrorism and violent extremism: challenges, tensions and pitfalls

    Adrian Cherney;Jason Hartley

  • Research Utilization in the Social Sciences: A Comparison of Five Academic Disciplines in Australia

    Adrian Cherney;Brian Head;Paul Boreham;Jenny Povey

  • Networks and Meta-regulation: Strategies Aimed at Governing Illicit Synthetic Drugs

    Juani O'Reilly;Adrian Cherney;Peter Grabosky

  • Utilization of social science research: Results of a pilot study among Australian sociologists and criminologists

    Adrian Cherney;Tara Renae McGee

  • Use of academic social research by public officials: exploring preferences and constraints that impact on research use

    Adrian Cherney;Brian Head;Jenny Povey;Michele Ferguson

  • Crime Prevention: Frontmatter

    Adam Sutton;Adrian Cherney;Rob White

  • Crime prevention in Australia: Beyond 'what works?'

    Adrian Cherney;Adam Sutton

  • Pathways to Institutional Legitimacy in Postconflict Societies: Perceptions of Process and Performance in Nepal

    Kylie Fisk;Adrian Cherney

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristina Murphy
Kristina Murphy Griffith University
Lorraine Mazerolle
Lorraine Mazerolle University of Queensland
Brian Head
Brian Head University of Queensland
Peter Grabosky
Peter Grabosky Australian National University
Neville A. Stanton
Neville A. Stanton University of Southampton
Paul M. Salmon
Paul M. Salmon University of the Sunshine Coast
Matthew J. Hornsey
Matthew J. Hornsey University of Queensland
Lane Strathearn
Lane Strathearn University of Iowa
Ben Bradford
Ben Bradford University College London
Adrian B. Kelly
Adrian B. Kelly Queensland University of Technology

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