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Overview

Steven M. Chermak is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans the intersection of social sciences and computer science, with notable focus areas including sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and information systems.

Their body of work covers a range of topics primarily within terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence, as well as crime patterns and interventions. Other prominent themes include hate speech and cyberbullying detection, gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, cybercrime and law enforcement studies, and social and intergroup psychology.

Recent publications by Steven M. Chermak include:

  • Examining the Online Expression of Ideology among Far-Right Extremist Forum Users, 2020, Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Comparing Different Sources of Data to Examine Trends of Hate Crime in Absence of Official Registers, 2020, American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Using Open-source Data to Better Understand and Respond to American School Shootings: Introducing and Exploring the American School Shooting Study (TASSS), 2021, Journal of School Violence
  • Comparing the Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists, 2021, Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Examining Online Indicators of Extremism in Violent Right-Wing Extremist Forums, 2021, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Joshua D. Freilich
  • Ryan Scrivens
  • Thomas J. Holt
  • Emily Greene-Colozzi
  • Brent R. Klein

Steven M. Chermak's scholarly work appears regularly in several publication venues, among which are:

  • Crime & Delinquency
  • CrimRxiv
  • Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
  • Campbell Systematic Reviews

Their research integrates complex social and technological dimensions in examining criminal behavior, extremism, and violence, emphasizing data-driven methods to better understand these phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Causes of police behavior revisited

    Eric C. Riksheim;Steven M. Chermak

  • Media coverage of police misconduct and attitudes toward police

    Steven Chermak;Edmund McGarrell;Jeff Gruenewald

  • Victims In The News: Crime And The American News Media

    Steven M. Chermak

  • Reducing Homicide through a “Lever‐Pulling” Strategy

    Edmund F. McGarrell;Steven Chermak;Jeremy M. Wilson;Jeremy M. Wilson;Nicholas Corsaro

  • Introducing the United States Extremis Crime Database (ECDB)

    Joshua D. Freilich;Steven M. Chermak;Roberta Belli;Jeff Gruenewald

  • Intelligence-Led Policing As a Framework for Responding to Terrorism

    Edmund F. McGarrell;Joshua D. Freilich;Steven Chermak

  • Distinguishing “Loner” Attacks from Other Domestic Extremist Violence

    Jeff Gruenewald;Steven Chermak;Joshua D. Freilich

  • REDUCING FIREARMS VIOLENCE THROUGH DIRECTED POLICE PATROL

    Edmund F. McGarrell;Steven Chermak;Alexander Weiss;Jeremy M. Wilson

  • Maintaining legitimacy using external communication strategies: An analysis of police-media relations

    Steven Chermak;Alexander Weiss

  • The Media’s Coverage of Domestic Terrorism

    Steven M. Chermak;Jeffrey Gruenewald

  • Race, gender, and the newsworthiness of homicide incidents

    Jeff Gruenewald;Jesenia Pizarro;Steven M. Chermak

  • Laying a foundation for the criminological examination of Right-wing, Left-wing, and Al Qaeda-inspired extremism in the United States

    Steven Chermak;Jeffrey A. Gruenewald

  • Body count news: How crime is presented in the news media

    Steven M. Chermak

  • American Terrorism and Extremist Crime Data Sources and Selectivity Bias: An Investigation Focusing on Homicide Events Committed by Far-Right Extremists

    Steven M. Chermak;Joshua D. Freilich;William S. Parkin;James P. Lynch

  • Citizens' perceptions of aggressive traffic enforcement strategies

    Steven Chermak;Edmund F. McGarrell;Edmund F. McGarrell;Alexander Weiss

  • The Organizational Dynamics of Far-Right Hate Groups in the United States: Comparing Violent to Nonviolent Organizations

    Steven Chermak;Joshua Freilich;Michael Suttmoeller

  • The presentation of drugs in the news media: The news sources involved in the construction of social problems

    Steven Chermak

  • The Relationship Between Hate Groups and Far-Right Ideological Violence:

    Amy Adamczyk;Amy Adamczyk;Jeff Gruenewald;Jeff Gruenewald;Steven M. Chermak;Steven M. Chermak;Joshua D. Freilich;Joshua D. Freilich

  • Far-Right Lone Wolf Homicides in the United States

    Jeff Gruenewald;Steven Chermak;Joshua D. Freilich

  • Surveying American State Police Agencies About Terrorism Threats, Terrorism Sources, and Terrorism Definitions

    Joshua D. Freilich;Steven M. Chermak;Joseph Simone

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua D. Freilich
Joshua D. Freilich John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Edmund F. McGarrell
Edmund F. McGarrell Michigan State University
Thomas J. Holt
Thomas J. Holt Michigan State University
Clark McCauley
Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College

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