Daren Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daren Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daren |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7901-4856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Influence of Covid-19 Restrictions and Rhetoric in the U.S
Xenophobic extremism directed towards Asian persons, as operationalized in a multitude of ways, was found to be especially heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The emotion-threat and emboldenment frameworks suggest that such extremism may have been the result of pandemic-related restrictions and rhetoric, which led to an increase in negative emotions directed toward the “outgroup,” as further defined by political leaders. Informed by these pe…
Radicalization Pathways to Terrorist Mass Casualty Violence Across Ideological Motivations
Terrorist lethality has emerged as a key metric for evaluating counterterrorism success. Recent research, however, questions whether terrorist mass casualty events (TMCEs) are consistent with existing theories of terrorism and across heterogeneous terrorist ideological motivations. This study examines previously understudied control and learning theories and their impact on the likelihood of TMCEs from 1983 to 2020. Leveraging the Profiles on Ind…
Examining the Intersection of Radicalism, Activism, and Gun Violence
Radicalism has been connected to violence, and firearms have become widely used in political violence. However, research has yet to examine radicalism in relation to firearms. This study fills this gap by examining whether radicalism and activism are related to gun beliefs and gun violence. This study included 372 high-risk adults (Mage = 32.66). Most participants were male (72 percent), and African American (80 percent). Studying violently injur…
Successful for whom
Targeted killings are a prominent strategy for combatting terrorism and are regularly claimed to deter political violence. Employed against terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden and others who are argued to be prominent terrorist threats, a growing body of evidence suggests that targeted killings do not achieve their desired general deterrent impacts. Yet, this strategy still enjoys great political support and targeted killings continue to be to…
Far-Right and Jihadi Terrorism Within the United States
As tens of thousands swarmed the US Capitol Grounds on January 6th, 2021, to oppose the election of Joe Biden as President, thousands among them assaulted officers and breached the building to stop the certification of the election results, leading to nine deaths and hundreds of injuries. Despite being an act of terrorism and evidence that far-right extremists planned to take over the government, some dismiss January 6th as legitimate political d…
Target Them with What? Why States Choose Different Coin Strategies for Different Insurgent Organizations
Why do some governments negotiate with insurgent organizations while others use force? This study examines the factors that influence these strategic government approaches to insurgencies using an original data set of state actions toward 140 insurgent groups between 1998 and 2012. We develop a simple model to explain government policy choice and test on these original data. After accounting for ideological differences and insurgent organization …
Testing the Universality of the Gender Equality–Peace Thesis
Gender inequality has been empirically linked to the incidence of terrorism, as a motivator for women’s involvement in terrorism, and political and social violence more generally. Although these studies demonstrate that advances in gender equality on average decrease terrorism, it is unclear how these influences translate to individual nations or conflicts. Because Turkey has witnessed consistent but unequal regional advances in gender equality, …
Does US presidential rhetoric affect asymmetric political violence
Although political violence has proven to be difficult for governments to manage, predict or control, previous research on the impact of relevant federal government actions and US presidential rhetoric on terrorist attacks and hate crimes demonstrates that what the US government does matters in ways that are both expected and unexpected. In the US, government counterterrorism strategies changed rapidly in response to the September 11th, 2001 atta…
Gender equality and its heterogeneous impact on the incarceration of women in Turkey
Policing built environment crime risks
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is now routinely adopted in many parts of the world. The role assumed by police in CPTED practices has however received limited academic attention. Through an analysis of available documentation and interviews with local government planners from 10 Sydney councils, this article provides a (partial) understanding of the historical and contemporary roles police have played in the development and…
A review of the impact of crime risk assessment reports in New South Wales, Australia
A recent history of Australian crime prevention
Uprooting or Sowing Violence
Belligerent nonstate actors including terrorist organizations often exploit illicit economies to fund their activities. In Colombia numerous belligerent groups are involved in illegal narcotics markets. For more than 20 years, the Colombian government has responded with targeted eradication of illicit crops, intending to undermine the groups' sources of revenue while simultaneously disrupting the illicit drug economy. Despite its duration, this p…
The ‘art and science’ of preparing crime risk assessment reports
An exploratory study of crime risks and the planning process
Risky Reports
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and the New South Wales crime risk assessment guidelines
Do Crime Risk Assessment Reports Measure Crime Risks
Since 2001, crime risk assessment reports have been required for various proposed developments in New South Wales (Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP) 2001). However, there has been very little analysis of these reports, including close consideration of the utility of the findings contained in such reports. To begin to address this knowledge gap, crime risk assessment reports relating to developments across New South Wales1 have been …
Far-Right and Jihadi Terrorism Within the United States
As tens of thousands swarmed the US Capitol Grounds on January 6th, 2021, to oppose the election of Joe Biden as President, thousands among them assaulted officers and breached the building to stop the certification of the election results, leading to nine deaths and hundreds of injuries. Despite being an act of terrorism and evidence that far-right extremists planned to take over the government, some dismiss January 6th as legitimate political d…
Does US presidential rhetoric affect asymmetric political violence
Although political violence has proven to be difficult for governments to manage, predict or control, previous research on the impact of relevant federal government actions and US presidential rhetoric on terrorist attacks and hate crimes demonstrates that what the US government does matters in ways that are both expected and unexpected. In the US, government counterterrorism strategies changed rapidly in response to the September 11th, 2001 atta…
An exploratory study of crime risks and the planning process
Successful for whom
Targeted killings are a prominent strategy for combatting terrorism and are regularly claimed to deter political violence. Employed against terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden and others who are argued to be prominent terrorist threats, a growing body of evidence suggests that targeted killings do not achieve their desired general deterrent impacts. Yet, this strategy still enjoys great political support and targeted killings continue to be to…
The ‘art and science’ of preparing crime risk assessment reports
Risky Reports
Do Crime Risk Assessment Reports Measure Crime Risks
Since 2001, crime risk assessment reports have been required for various proposed developments in New South Wales (Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP) 2001). However, there has been very little analysis of these reports, including close consideration of the utility of the findings contained in such reports. To begin to address this knowledge gap, crime risk assessment reports relating to developments across New South Wales1 have been …
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and the New South Wales crime risk assessment guidelines
An exploratory study of crime risks and the planning process
Risky Reports
The ‘art and science’ of preparing crime risk assessment reports
Policing built environment crime risks
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is now routinely adopted in many parts of the world. The role assumed by police in CPTED practices has however received limited academic attention. Through an analysis of available documentation and interviews with local government planners from 10 Sydney councils, this article provides a (partial) understanding of the historical and contemporary roles police have played in the development and…
A review of the impact of crime risk assessment reports in New South Wales, Australia
A recent history of Australian crime prevention
Uprooting or Sowing Violence
Belligerent nonstate actors including terrorist organizations often exploit illicit economies to fund their activities. In Colombia numerous belligerent groups are involved in illegal narcotics markets. For more than 20 years, the Colombian government has responded with targeted eradication of illicit crops, intending to undermine the groups' sources of revenue while simultaneously disrupting the illicit drug economy. Despite its duration, this p…
Gender equality and its heterogeneous impact on the incarceration of women in Turkey
Does US presidential rhetoric affect asymmetric political violence
Although political violence has proven to be difficult for governments to manage, predict or control, previous research on the impact of relevant federal government actions and US presidential rhetoric on terrorist attacks and hate crimes demonstrates that what the US government does matters in ways that are both expected and unexpected. In the US, government counterterrorism strategies changed rapidly in response to the September 11th, 2001 atta…
Testing the Universality of the Gender Equality–Peace Thesis
Gender inequality has been empirically linked to the incidence of terrorism, as a motivator for women’s involvement in terrorism, and political and social violence more generally. Although these studies demonstrate that advances in gender equality on average decrease terrorism, it is unclear how these influences translate to individual nations or conflicts. Because Turkey has witnessed consistent but unequal regional advances in gender equality, …
Target Them with What? Why States Choose Different Coin Strategies for Different Insurgent Organizations
Why do some governments negotiate with insurgent organizations while others use force? This study examines the factors that influence these strategic government approaches to insurgencies using an original data set of state actions toward 140 insurgent groups between 1998 and 2012. We develop a simple model to explain government policy choice and test on these original data. After accounting for ideological differences and insurgent organization …
Far-Right and Jihadi Terrorism Within the United States
As tens of thousands swarmed the US Capitol Grounds on January 6th, 2021, to oppose the election of Joe Biden as President, thousands among them assaulted officers and breached the building to stop the certification of the election results, leading to nine deaths and hundreds of injuries. Despite being an act of terrorism and evidence that far-right extremists planned to take over the government, some dismiss January 6th as legitimate political d…
Successful for whom
Targeted killings are a prominent strategy for combatting terrorism and are regularly claimed to deter political violence. Employed against terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden and others who are argued to be prominent terrorist threats, a growing body of evidence suggests that targeted killings do not achieve their desired general deterrent impacts. Yet, this strategy still enjoys great political support and targeted killings continue to be to…
The Influence of Covid-19 Restrictions and Rhetoric in the U.S
Xenophobic extremism directed towards Asian persons, as operationalized in a multitude of ways, was found to be especially heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The emotion-threat and emboldenment frameworks suggest that such extremism may have been the result of pandemic-related restrictions and rhetoric, which led to an increase in negative emotions directed toward the “outgroup,” as further defined by political leaders. Informed by these pe…
Radicalization Pathways to Terrorist Mass Casualty Violence Across Ideological Motivations
Terrorist lethality has emerged as a key metric for evaluating counterterrorism success. Recent research, however, questions whether terrorist mass casualty events (TMCEs) are consistent with existing theories of terrorism and across heterogeneous terrorist ideological motivations. This study examines previously understudied control and learning theories and their impact on the likelihood of TMCEs from 1983 to 2020. Leveraging the Profiles on Ind…
Examining the Intersection of Radicalism, Activism, and Gun Violence
Radicalism has been connected to violence, and firearms have become widely used in political violence. However, research has yet to examine radicalism in relation to firearms. This study fills this gap by examining whether radicalism and activism are related to gun beliefs and gun violence. This study included 372 high-risk adults (Mage = 32.66). Most participants were male (72 percent), and African American (80 percent). Studying violently injur…
Political science (15 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)