Garth Davies
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3846416 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Garth Davies |
| PRENOMES | Garth |
| SOBRENOME | Davies |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIES G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7830-7985 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Crime-Terrorism Nexus and Jihadist Radicalization in the West
Contextualizing and defining de-escalation in policing
In light of increasing concerns about use of force, one of the most prominent recommendations for improving policing is ‘de-escalation’. However, despite the hype surrounding de-escalation, a clear definition still is lacking. At the same time, debates about de-escalation have not been grounded in, or informed by, police practice. The lack of a solid definition is problematic in practice, as police struggle with potentially conflicting considerat…
A ‘Pandemic within a Pandemic’
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists
Although many researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are concerned about identifying and characterizing online posting patterns of violent extremists prior to their engagement in violence offline, little is empirically known about their online patterns generally or differences in their patterns compared to their nonviolent counterpart particularly. In this study, we drew from a unique sample of violent and nonviolent right-wing extremists t…
Spatially Varying Unemployment and Crime Effects in the Long Run and Short Run
The Cantor and Land model of unemployment and crime separates the effects of long- and short-run unemployment. In the long run, increases in unemployment are expected to increase crime, whereas the same increases are expected to decrease crime in the short run. This model has been tested for decades, generally supporting these predictions. In this article, we investigate spatial variations in these relationships using geographically weighted regr…
The truth does not always speak for itself
Use of force is among the most contentious issue facing law enforcement today. Unfortunately, much of the conversation surrounding use of force is driven by misunderstandings, in large part the result of lacking data. Despite repeated calls for more and better information regarding police use of force, departments and agencies have been slow to adopt useful mechanisms for gathering data. This article highlights the Subject Behaviour–Officer Respo…
Let’s not put a label on it
Media portrayals of terrorism, particularly right-wing terrorism, have been understudied. In response, this study focuses on understanding how right-wing terrorism is portrayed by the New York Times and the Washington Post. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on five cases. Framing theory and thematic analysis were used to inform the research methods. Four main themes emerge: “officially, we cannot be sure this was terrorism”; “just a ma…
A Witch’s Brew of Grievances
Historically, pandemics had inevitably produced demonization and scapegoating, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception. Some individuals and groups have attempted to weaponize and exploit the pandemic, to use it as a means of spreading their extremist ideologies and to radicalize others to their causes. Segmented regression analyses of seven online extremist forums revealed that posting behavior on violent right-wing extremist and incel f…
The Contextual Nature of Right-Wing Terrorism across Nations
Despite the growing threat of right-wing terrorism as a security concern in many countries, no empirical research has examined the variables that are associated with increases or decreases in right-wing terrorist incidents at a national level of aggregation. The present study examines the applicability of indicators informed by macro-level criminological theories related to immigration, economic conditions, and social demographic composition to t…
Chapter 13. Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited
This chapter examines the development of “order maintenance policing” in New York City. It studies the stop-and-frisk activities of New York City police officers by examining temporal and spatial patterns of stops from 1999, 2003, and 2006. Findings reveal that stop rates have increased by 500 percent since 1999 despite little change in crime rates Stop activity was greatest in poor and minority communities, and stop patterns were more closely ti…
The Temporal (In)Stability of the Unemployment and Crime Relationship
The complex relationship between crime and economic change has had a long pedigree in criminological research. This article considers the temporal stability of the Cantor and Land model of unemployment and crime using a decomposition model of Canadian provinces, 1981 to 2009. We include multiple economic measures for a more comprehensive representation of economic performance, allowing for the estimates of long- and short-run unemployment effects…
Upvoting extremism
Since the advent of the Internet, right-wing extremists and those who subscribe to extreme right views have exploited online platforms to build a collective identity among the like-minded. Research in this area has largely focused on extremists’ use of websites, forums, and mainstream social media sites, but overlooked in this research has been an exploration of the popular social news aggregation site Reddit. The current study explores the role …
Reconceptualizing Ideology and Extremism
The majority of contemporary research on terrorism and extremism has focused on jihadi extremism, while other ideologies have received far less attention. In response to this gap, the current study aims to compare the similarities and differences between jihadi, right-wing and left-wing extremists at the individual level. Using the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) dataset, a multinomial logistic regression model …
Measuring the Evolution of Radical Right-Wing Posting Behaviors Online
Researchers have previously explored how right-wing extremists build a collective identity online by targeting their perceived "threat," but little is known about how this "us" versus "them" dynamic evolves over time. This study uses a sentiment analysis-based algorithm that adapts criminal career measures, as well as semi-parametric group-based modeling, to evaluate how users' anti-Semitic, anti-Black, and anti-LGBTQ posting behaviors develop on…
Race, Ethnicity, and Perceived Minority Police Presence
Although the conventional wisdom holds that increasing the number of minority officers will enhance residents' perceptions of police and the criminal justice system, further systematic investigation of this hypothesis may be needed. Building on the group-position thesis, the representative bureaucracy theory, and prior research, this study investigates whether perceived minority police presence within residents' neighborhoods affects residents' p…
Searching for signs of extremism on the web
As violent extremists continue to surface in online discussion forums, law enforcement agencies search for new ways of uncovering their digital indicators. Researchers have both described and hypothesized a number of ways to detect online traces of potential extremists, yet this area of inquiry remains in its infancy. This study proposes a new search method that, through the analysis of sentiment, identifies the most radical users within online f…
Spoonful of sugar or strong medicine
Recognising that the police response may have a significant impact on the type of behaviour displayed by the crowd has prompted many police departments to adopt less obtrusive approaches to crowd management. Low-profile, negotiation-based public-order policing strategies have been used successfully in low-risk crowd situations. However, it remains unclear as to whether or not this style of policing can be effectively applied in more high-risk env…
Crime and Enforcement in Immigrant Neighborhoods
Immigration and crime have received much popular and political attention in the past decade and have been a focus of episodic social attention for much of the history of the United States. Recent policy and legal discourse suggests that the stigmatic link between immigrants and crime has endured, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. This study addresses the relationship between immigration and crime in urban settings, focusing on areal u…
A person-oriented perspective on sexual offenders, offending trajectories, and risk of recidivism
Street Stops and Broken Windows
Patterns of "stop and frisk" activity by police across New York City neighborhoods reflect competing theories of aggressive policing. "Broken Windows" theory suggests that neighborhoods with greater concentrations of physical and social disorder should evidence higher stop and frisk activity, especially for "quality of life" crimes. However, while disorder theory informs quality of life policing strategies, observed patterns of stop and frisk act…
Upvoting extremism
Since the advent of the Internet, right-wing extremists and those who subscribe to extreme right views have exploited online platforms to build a collective identity among the like-minded. Research in this area has largely focused on extremists’ use of websites, forums, and mainstream social media sites, but overlooked in this research has been an exploration of the popular social news aggregation site Reddit. The current study explores the role …
Street Stops and Broken Windows
Patterns of "stop and frisk" activity by police across New York City neighborhoods reflect competing theories of aggressive policing. "Broken Windows" theory suggests that neighborhoods with greater concentrations of physical and social disorder should evidence higher stop and frisk activity, especially for "quality of life" crimes. However, while disorder theory informs quality of life policing strategies, observed patterns of stop and frisk act…
Crime and Enforcement in Immigrant Neighborhoods
Immigration and crime have received much popular and political attention in the past decade and have been a focus of episodic social attention for much of the history of the United States. Recent policy and legal discourse suggests that the stigmatic link between immigrants and crime has endured, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. This study addresses the relationship between immigration and crime in urban settings, focusing on areal u…
Measuring the Evolution of Radical Right-Wing Posting Behaviors Online
Researchers have previously explored how right-wing extremists build a collective identity online by targeting their perceived "threat," but little is known about how this "us" versus "them" dynamic evolves over time. This study uses a sentiment analysis-based algorithm that adapts criminal career measures, as well as semi-parametric group-based modeling, to evaluate how users' anti-Semitic, anti-Black, and anti-LGBTQ posting behaviors develop on…
A person-oriented perspective on sexual offenders, offending trajectories, and risk of recidivism
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists
Although many researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are concerned about identifying and characterizing online posting patterns of violent extremists prior to their engagement in violence offline, little is empirically known about their online patterns generally or differences in their patterns compared to their nonviolent counterpart particularly. In this study, we drew from a unique sample of violent and nonviolent right-wing extremists t…
Searching for signs of extremism on the web
As violent extremists continue to surface in online discussion forums, law enforcement agencies search for new ways of uncovering their digital indicators. Researchers have both described and hypothesized a number of ways to detect online traces of potential extremists, yet this area of inquiry remains in its infancy. This study proposes a new search method that, through the analysis of sentiment, identifies the most radical users within online f…
A Witch’s Brew of Grievances
Historically, pandemics had inevitably produced demonization and scapegoating, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception. Some individuals and groups have attempted to weaponize and exploit the pandemic, to use it as a means of spreading their extremist ideologies and to radicalize others to their causes. Segmented regression analyses of seven online extremist forums revealed that posting behavior on violent right-wing extremist and incel f…
Race, Ethnicity, and Perceived Minority Police Presence
Although the conventional wisdom holds that increasing the number of minority officers will enhance residents' perceptions of police and the criminal justice system, further systematic investigation of this hypothesis may be needed. Building on the group-position thesis, the representative bureaucracy theory, and prior research, this study investigates whether perceived minority police presence within residents' neighborhoods affects residents' p…
Reconceptualizing Ideology and Extremism
The majority of contemporary research on terrorism and extremism has focused on jihadi extremism, while other ideologies have received far less attention. In response to this gap, the current study aims to compare the similarities and differences between jihadi, right-wing and left-wing extremists at the individual level. Using the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) dataset, a multinomial logistic regression model …
Let’s not put a label on it
Media portrayals of terrorism, particularly right-wing terrorism, have been understudied. In response, this study focuses on understanding how right-wing terrorism is portrayed by the New York Times and the Washington Post. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on five cases. Framing theory and thematic analysis were used to inform the research methods. Four main themes emerge: “officially, we cannot be sure this was terrorism”; “just a ma…
Spoonful of sugar or strong medicine
Recognising that the police response may have a significant impact on the type of behaviour displayed by the crowd has prompted many police departments to adopt less obtrusive approaches to crowd management. Low-profile, negotiation-based public-order policing strategies have been used successfully in low-risk crowd situations. However, it remains unclear as to whether or not this style of policing can be effectively applied in more high-risk env…
Street Stops and Broken Windows
Patterns of "stop and frisk" activity by police across New York City neighborhoods reflect competing theories of aggressive policing. "Broken Windows" theory suggests that neighborhoods with greater concentrations of physical and social disorder should evidence higher stop and frisk activity, especially for "quality of life" crimes. However, while disorder theory informs quality of life policing strategies, observed patterns of stop and frisk act…
A person-oriented perspective on sexual offenders, offending trajectories, and risk of recidivism
Crime and Enforcement in Immigrant Neighborhoods
Immigration and crime have received much popular and political attention in the past decade and have been a focus of episodic social attention for much of the history of the United States. Recent policy and legal discourse suggests that the stigmatic link between immigrants and crime has endured, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. This study addresses the relationship between immigration and crime in urban settings, focusing on areal u…
Spoonful of sugar or strong medicine
Recognising that the police response may have a significant impact on the type of behaviour displayed by the crowd has prompted many police departments to adopt less obtrusive approaches to crowd management. Low-profile, negotiation-based public-order policing strategies have been used successfully in low-risk crowd situations. However, it remains unclear as to whether or not this style of policing can be effectively applied in more high-risk env…
Searching for signs of extremism on the web
As violent extremists continue to surface in online discussion forums, law enforcement agencies search for new ways of uncovering their digital indicators. Researchers have both described and hypothesized a number of ways to detect online traces of potential extremists, yet this area of inquiry remains in its infancy. This study proposes a new search method that, through the analysis of sentiment, identifies the most radical users within online f…
Race, Ethnicity, and Perceived Minority Police Presence
Although the conventional wisdom holds that increasing the number of minority officers will enhance residents' perceptions of police and the criminal justice system, further systematic investigation of this hypothesis may be needed. Building on the group-position thesis, the representative bureaucracy theory, and prior research, this study investigates whether perceived minority police presence within residents' neighborhoods affects residents' p…
Chapter 13. Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited
This chapter examines the development of “order maintenance policing” in New York City. It studies the stop-and-frisk activities of New York City police officers by examining temporal and spatial patterns of stops from 1999, 2003, and 2006. Findings reveal that stop rates have increased by 500 percent since 1999 despite little change in crime rates Stop activity was greatest in poor and minority communities, and stop patterns were more closely ti…
The Temporal (In)Stability of the Unemployment and Crime Relationship
The complex relationship between crime and economic change has had a long pedigree in criminological research. This article considers the temporal stability of the Cantor and Land model of unemployment and crime using a decomposition model of Canadian provinces, 1981 to 2009. We include multiple economic measures for a more comprehensive representation of economic performance, allowing for the estimates of long- and short-run unemployment effects…
Upvoting extremism
Since the advent of the Internet, right-wing extremists and those who subscribe to extreme right views have exploited online platforms to build a collective identity among the like-minded. Research in this area has largely focused on extremists’ use of websites, forums, and mainstream social media sites, but overlooked in this research has been an exploration of the popular social news aggregation site Reddit. The current study explores the role …
Reconceptualizing Ideology and Extremism
The majority of contemporary research on terrorism and extremism has focused on jihadi extremism, while other ideologies have received far less attention. In response to this gap, the current study aims to compare the similarities and differences between jihadi, right-wing and left-wing extremists at the individual level. Using the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) dataset, a multinomial logistic regression model …
Measuring the Evolution of Radical Right-Wing Posting Behaviors Online
Researchers have previously explored how right-wing extremists build a collective identity online by targeting their perceived "threat," but little is known about how this "us" versus "them" dynamic evolves over time. This study uses a sentiment analysis-based algorithm that adapts criminal career measures, as well as semi-parametric group-based modeling, to evaluate how users' anti-Semitic, anti-Black, and anti-LGBTQ posting behaviors develop on…
Spatially Varying Unemployment and Crime Effects in the Long Run and Short Run
The Cantor and Land model of unemployment and crime separates the effects of long- and short-run unemployment. In the long run, increases in unemployment are expected to increase crime, whereas the same increases are expected to decrease crime in the short run. This model has been tested for decades, generally supporting these predictions. In this article, we investigate spatial variations in these relationships using geographically weighted regr…
The truth does not always speak for itself
Use of force is among the most contentious issue facing law enforcement today. Unfortunately, much of the conversation surrounding use of force is driven by misunderstandings, in large part the result of lacking data. Despite repeated calls for more and better information regarding police use of force, departments and agencies have been slow to adopt useful mechanisms for gathering data. This article highlights the Subject Behaviour–Officer Respo…
Let’s not put a label on it
Media portrayals of terrorism, particularly right-wing terrorism, have been understudied. In response, this study focuses on understanding how right-wing terrorism is portrayed by the New York Times and the Washington Post. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on five cases. Framing theory and thematic analysis were used to inform the research methods. Four main themes emerge: “officially, we cannot be sure this was terrorism”; “just a ma…
A Witch’s Brew of Grievances
Historically, pandemics had inevitably produced demonization and scapegoating, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception. Some individuals and groups have attempted to weaponize and exploit the pandemic, to use it as a means of spreading their extremist ideologies and to radicalize others to their causes. Segmented regression analyses of seven online extremist forums revealed that posting behavior on violent right-wing extremist and incel f…
The Contextual Nature of Right-Wing Terrorism across Nations
Despite the growing threat of right-wing terrorism as a security concern in many countries, no empirical research has examined the variables that are associated with increases or decreases in right-wing terrorist incidents at a national level of aggregation. The present study examines the applicability of indicators informed by macro-level criminological theories related to immigration, economic conditions, and social demographic composition to t…
Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists
Although many researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are concerned about identifying and characterizing online posting patterns of violent extremists prior to their engagement in violence offline, little is empirically known about their online patterns generally or differences in their patterns compared to their nonviolent counterpart particularly. In this study, we drew from a unique sample of violent and nonviolent right-wing extremists t…
A ‘Pandemic within a Pandemic’
Contextualizing and defining de-escalation in policing
In light of increasing concerns about use of force, one of the most prominent recommendations for improving policing is ‘de-escalation’. However, despite the hype surrounding de-escalation, a clear definition still is lacking. At the same time, debates about de-escalation have not been grounded in, or informed by, police practice. The lack of a solid definition is problematic in practice, as police struggle with potentially conflicting considerat…
The Crime-Terrorism Nexus and Jihadist Radicalization in the West
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