Brent R Klein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 206776 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brent R Klein |
| NOMBRES | Brent R |
| APELLIDO | Klein |
| FIRMA | KLEIN B R |
| AFILIACIONES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4428-280X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Online Harassment, Negative Affect, and Suicidal Ideation Among Korean Adolescents
This cross sectional study extends General Strain Theory (GST) to examine how online harassment victimization (OHV) shapes suicidal ideation among 2067 South Korean adolescents who reported experiencing OHV. We investigate whether the intensity and type of OHV predict suicidal ideation, whether this relationship is mediated by negative emotional states, and whether protective factors moderate these effects. We find that OHV significantly predicts…
U.S. K-12 School Shooting Characteristics in Rural and Metropolitan Counties, 1990 to 2016
Using The American School Shooting Study (TASSS), this descriptive analysis examined 386 injurious K-12 school shootings involving 412 perpetrators in the United States from 1990 to 2016. Incidents were classified by county metropolitan status using USDA Rural-Urban Continuum Codes to assess whether situational and perpetrator characteristics differ systematically by place. Nearly 60% of incidents occurred in large metropolitan counties, 25% in s…
Open-Source Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
This review focuses on the use of open-source data in criminology and criminal justice research, highlighting the field's advancements through these data, optimal practices for constructing open-source databases, and key methodological hurdles to confront. As the amount and types of available public information have grown, scholars have capitalized on this access by constructing open-source databases. Our review found extraordinary growth in this…
School Shootings and Suicide
This study comparatively examines whether suicide school shooters differ from non-suicide school shooters. Although the research on school shootings is increasing, there is limited research on school shooters who attempt, threaten, or plan suicide or die by suicide in comparison to those who do not. The American School Shooting Study (TASSS) includes data on all school shooting events occurring in the United States between 1990 and 2016 that resu…
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools
This study examined firearm lethality and aggressors’ lethal intent on injurious fatal and nonfatal school shootings using data from The American School Shooting Study, which covers 329 school shootings in the United States from 1990 to 2016. We developed a new multidimensional construct for measuring shooters’ determination to kill and examined firearm characteristics while considering confounding factors. We identified 11 distinct categories of…
Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention
Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States
This study examines how strength of ideology, victim status, and other factors shape prosecutorial and sentencing decisions in cases of far-right extremist homicide. We draw from multiple conceptual frameworks to understand how assessments of defendants’ blameworthiness, crime seriousness, and other practical constraints influence the severity of legal outcomes. Our analysis of data from the United States Extremist Crime Database finds that while…
A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Relationship between Target Hardening and Differential Terrorist Attack Outcomes
We used a convergent mixed methods design to explore the relationship between target hardening and the successfulness of terrorist attacks for 94 jihadi-inspired incidents in the United States between 1990 and 2018. Our quantitative analysis reveals that only 12% of incidents with no target hardening were unsuccessful, whereas over 80% of incidents with a law enforcement/military presence and physical/electronic security were unsuccessful. Qualit…
Investigating the applicability of situational crime prevention to the public mass violence context
Research Summary In this article, we argue that situational crime prevention (SCP) strategies can be used to prevent public mass violence, as well as to mitigate the harms caused from those attacks that still occur. We draw from the SCP perspective generally, and its application to terrorism particularly, as well as from the public mass violence literature. We focus on the pillars of opportunity that include target selection, weapon selection, to…
American Jihadi Terrorism
While the number of American jihadi terrorist attacks remains relatively rare, terrorist plots thwarted by law enforcement have increased since September 11, 2001. Although these law enforcement blocks of would-be terrorists are considered counterterrorism triumphs by the FBI, human rights and civil liberty watch groups have conversely suggested that those who plan for attacks alongside government informants and undercover agents may be unique an…
Immigration and Violence in Rural versus Urban Counties, 1990-2010
Extending disorganization and immigrant revitalization perspectives beyond the contexts dominating prior research, this study examines whether and how immigration may be uniquely linked to crime in rural versus urban communities over the 1990–2010 period. Drawing on the Uniform Crime Reports offenses known database and the United States Census, we find that increases in immigration are negatively associated with violence. However, this relationsh…
Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets
This study assesses the vulnerability and attractiveness of eco-terrorism targets in the United States based on a Situational Crime Prevention approach. Data from the American Terrorism Study are extracted for eight different attributes of terrorism targets, including exposed, vital, iconic, legitimate, destructible, occupied, near, and easy. Descriptive findings generally support expectations that eco-terrorists select targets based on their vul…
Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets
This study assesses the vulnerability and attractiveness of eco-terrorism targets in the United States based on a Situational Crime Prevention approach. Data from the American Terrorism Study are extracted for eight different attributes of terrorism targets, including exposed, vital, iconic, legitimate, destructible, occupied, near, and easy. Descriptive findings generally support expectations that eco-terrorists select targets based on their vul…
Investigating the applicability of situational crime prevention to the public mass violence context
Research Summary In this article, we argue that situational crime prevention (SCP) strategies can be used to prevent public mass violence, as well as to mitigate the harms caused from those attacks that still occur. We draw from the SCP perspective generally, and its application to terrorism particularly, as well as from the public mass violence literature. We focus on the pillars of opportunity that include target selection, weapon selection, to…
Immigration and Violence in Rural versus Urban Counties, 1990-2010
Extending disorganization and immigrant revitalization perspectives beyond the contexts dominating prior research, this study examines whether and how immigration may be uniquely linked to crime in rural versus urban communities over the 1990–2010 period. Drawing on the Uniform Crime Reports offenses known database and the United States Census, we find that increases in immigration are negatively associated with violence. However, this relationsh…
A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Relationship between Target Hardening and Differential Terrorist Attack Outcomes
We used a convergent mixed methods design to explore the relationship between target hardening and the successfulness of terrorist attacks for 94 jihadi-inspired incidents in the United States between 1990 and 2018. Our quantitative analysis reveals that only 12% of incidents with no target hardening were unsuccessful, whereas over 80% of incidents with a law enforcement/military presence and physical/electronic security were unsuccessful. Qualit…
American Jihadi Terrorism
While the number of American jihadi terrorist attacks remains relatively rare, terrorist plots thwarted by law enforcement have increased since September 11, 2001. Although these law enforcement blocks of would-be terrorists are considered counterterrorism triumphs by the FBI, human rights and civil liberty watch groups have conversely suggested that those who plan for attacks alongside government informants and undercover agents may be unique an…
Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets
This study assesses the vulnerability and attractiveness of eco-terrorism targets in the United States based on a Situational Crime Prevention approach. Data from the American Terrorism Study are extracted for eight different attributes of terrorism targets, including exposed, vital, iconic, legitimate, destructible, occupied, near, and easy. Descriptive findings generally support expectations that eco-terrorists select targets based on their vul…
Immigration and Violence in Rural versus Urban Counties, 1990-2010
Extending disorganization and immigrant revitalization perspectives beyond the contexts dominating prior research, this study examines whether and how immigration may be uniquely linked to crime in rural versus urban communities over the 1990–2010 period. Drawing on the Uniform Crime Reports offenses known database and the United States Census, we find that increases in immigration are negatively associated with violence. However, this relationsh…
Investigating the applicability of situational crime prevention to the public mass violence context
Research Summary In this article, we argue that situational crime prevention (SCP) strategies can be used to prevent public mass violence, as well as to mitigate the harms caused from those attacks that still occur. We draw from the SCP perspective generally, and its application to terrorism particularly, as well as from the public mass violence literature. We focus on the pillars of opportunity that include target selection, weapon selection, to…
American Jihadi Terrorism
While the number of American jihadi terrorist attacks remains relatively rare, terrorist plots thwarted by law enforcement have increased since September 11, 2001. Although these law enforcement blocks of would-be terrorists are considered counterterrorism triumphs by the FBI, human rights and civil liberty watch groups have conversely suggested that those who plan for attacks alongside government informants and undercover agents may be unique an…
A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Relationship between Target Hardening and Differential Terrorist Attack Outcomes
We used a convergent mixed methods design to explore the relationship between target hardening and the successfulness of terrorist attacks for 94 jihadi-inspired incidents in the United States between 1990 and 2018. Our quantitative analysis reveals that only 12% of incidents with no target hardening were unsuccessful, whereas over 80% of incidents with a law enforcement/military presence and physical/electronic security were unsuccessful. Qualit…
Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States
This study examines how strength of ideology, victim status, and other factors shape prosecutorial and sentencing decisions in cases of far-right extremist homicide. We draw from multiple conceptual frameworks to understand how assessments of defendants’ blameworthiness, crime seriousness, and other practical constraints influence the severity of legal outcomes. Our analysis of data from the United States Extremist Crime Database finds that while…
Open-Source Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
This review focuses on the use of open-source data in criminology and criminal justice research, highlighting the field's advancements through these data, optimal practices for constructing open-source databases, and key methodological hurdles to confront. As the amount and types of available public information have grown, scholars have capitalized on this access by constructing open-source databases. Our review found extraordinary growth in this…
School Shootings and Suicide
This study comparatively examines whether suicide school shooters differ from non-suicide school shooters. Although the research on school shootings is increasing, there is limited research on school shooters who attempt, threaten, or plan suicide or die by suicide in comparison to those who do not. The American School Shooting Study (TASSS) includes data on all school shooting events occurring in the United States between 1990 and 2016 that resu…
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools
This study examined firearm lethality and aggressors’ lethal intent on injurious fatal and nonfatal school shootings using data from The American School Shooting Study, which covers 329 school shootings in the United States from 1990 to 2016. We developed a new multidimensional construct for measuring shooters’ determination to kill and examined firearm characteristics while considering confounding factors. We identified 11 distinct categories of…
Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention
Online Harassment, Negative Affect, and Suicidal Ideation Among Korean Adolescents
This cross sectional study extends General Strain Theory (GST) to examine how online harassment victimization (OHV) shapes suicidal ideation among 2067 South Korean adolescents who reported experiencing OHV. We investigate whether the intensity and type of OHV predict suicidal ideation, whether this relationship is mediated by negative emotional states, and whether protective factors moderate these effects. We find that OHV significantly predicts…
U.S. K-12 School Shooting Characteristics in Rural and Metropolitan Counties, 1990 to 2016
Using The American School Shooting Study (TASSS), this descriptive analysis examined 386 injurious K-12 school shootings involving 412 perpetrators in the United States from 1990 to 2016. Incidents were classified by county metropolitan status using USDA Rural-Urban Continuum Codes to assess whether situational and perpetrator characteristics differ systematically by place. Nearly 60% of incidents occurred in large metropolitan counties, 25% in s…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 obras) · Criminology (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Computer security (4 obras) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (4 obras)