Katharine A Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4268702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine A Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine A |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9580-0419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lethal Words: An Integrated Model of Violent Extremists’ Language
Violent extremists’ communications regularly yield lethal consequences. Yet despite this importance, no clear framework yet exists that exposes in a coherent way the various markers of violent extremist language. We construct a theoretical model of violent extremists’ language, integrating and refining existing approaches from different academic fields into a comprehensive account of its semantic content and structure. We evidence the empirical a…
Domestic Abuse: Growth Curve Modeling of Harm Across Repeat Incidents with Police Data
This paper analyzes trajectories of harm across repeat domestic abuse (DA) incidents using data from one police force in England and Wales matched with the Crime Harm Index. We use growth curve modeling to identify incident and offender-victim (dyad) predictors of harm. High Incident dyads with four or more DA cases ( N = 2,610) have a non-linear decrease in harm across incidents, with distinct trajectories for Intimate Partners and male offender…
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: Reconceiving knowledge exchange
Collaborative projects designed to generate research evidence involve knowledge exchange (KE) which hinges on the expectations and practices within the collaborating organisations. Existing literature about academic-police collaborations, and why they break down, has largely focused on different knowledge agendas, research timeframes and organisational cultures. In contrast, we offer a case example that attends to the failures in KE stemming from…
Isis Propaganda: A Full-Spectrum Extremist Message
ISIS Propaganda offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State’s (IS) propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences and using rigorous methods, the authors pursue several interconnected tasks. They trace the origins of IS’s message, they lay bare the strategic logic guiding its evolution, they examine each of its many components (magazines, videos, music, social media, etc.)…
Making sense of evidence: Using research training to promote organisational change
Many have argued that the development of evidence-based policing (EBP) depends on those in law enforcement agencies receiving appropriate training in research methodologies and data analysis. Despite this, there are few detailed accounts of such training and its delivery. This paper describes and evaluates the contribution of training workshops for police officers and staff in driving forward EBP. The workshops, developed based on a model used in…
Lethal Images: Analyzing Extremist Visual Propaganda from Isis and Beyond
Violent extremist groups regularly use pictures in their propaganda. This practice, however, remains insufficiently understood. Conceptualizing visual images as amplifiers of narratives and emotions, the present article offers an original theoretical framework and measurement method for examining the synchronic and diachronic study of the manipulative use of images by violent extremist groups. We illustrate this framework and method with a system…
Isis’s Clash of Civilizations: Constructing the “West” in Terrorist Propaganda
Depictions of the West abound in the propaganda produced by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” presenting to potentially sympathetic audiences an overwhelmingly negative image of a supposedly homogeneous political entity. Combining quantitative and qualitative language and visual analysis, we systematically expose the various facets of this image and analyze the overall picture. Drawing on the “clash of civilizations” literature as well as on r…
Reconfiguring the violent encounter? Preloading, security staff and breathalyser use in the night-time economy
Influence of Individual- and National-Level Factors on Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence
The study evaluated if individual- and national-level factors influence intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes. Using Demographic and Health Surveys' data, multilevel modeling was used to analyze 506,935 females nested in 41 nations. The results indicated that the respondents in nations with higher levels of gender inequality, measured by the Social Institutions and Gender Index, were more likely to agree a husband is justified to abuse his wi…
Modeling Terrorist Attacks: Assessing Statistical Models to Evaluate Domestic and Ideologically International Attacks
Many prior studies have analyzed how country characteristics affect the rate of terrorist violence and there is a growing literature on how group traits influence terrorist violence. The current study expands on this literature by using multilevel modeling to assess both these units of analysis on the rate of domestic attacks and the rate of attacks against foreign targets. Using data from the Big Allied and Dangerous and the Global Terrorism Dat…
Place matters: Contextualizing the roles of religion and race for understanding Americans' attitudes about homosexuality
Exploring the crime‒terror nexus in the United States: A social network analysis of a Hezbollah network involved in trade diversion
This exploratory study examines the nexus between crime and terrorism through a social network analysis of an American-based Hezbollah network involved in trade diversion of cigarettes for self-financing purposes. The study has three goals: (1) to explore the structural characteristics of an Islamic extremist network involved in trade diversion; (2) to identify key actors in the network and their links to other network participants; and (3) to co…
Opinions toward suicide: Cross-national evaluation of cultural and religious effects on individuals
Place matters: Contextualizing the roles of religion and race for understanding Americans' attitudes about homosexuality
Lethal Words: An Integrated Model of Violent Extremists’ Language
Violent extremists’ communications regularly yield lethal consequences. Yet despite this importance, no clear framework yet exists that exposes in a coherent way the various markers of violent extremist language. We construct a theoretical model of violent extremists’ language, integrating and refining existing approaches from different academic fields into a comprehensive account of its semantic content and structure. We evidence the empirical a…
Opinions toward suicide: Cross-national evaluation of cultural and religious effects on individuals
Influence of Individual- and National-Level Factors on Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence
The study evaluated if individual- and national-level factors influence intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes. Using Demographic and Health Surveys' data, multilevel modeling was used to analyze 506,935 females nested in 41 nations. The results indicated that the respondents in nations with higher levels of gender inequality, measured by the Social Institutions and Gender Index, were more likely to agree a husband is justified to abuse his wi…
Lethal Images: Analyzing Extremist Visual Propaganda from Isis and Beyond
Violent extremist groups regularly use pictures in their propaganda. This practice, however, remains insufficiently understood. Conceptualizing visual images as amplifiers of narratives and emotions, the present article offers an original theoretical framework and measurement method for examining the synchronic and diachronic study of the manipulative use of images by violent extremist groups. We illustrate this framework and method with a system…
Modeling Terrorist Attacks: Assessing Statistical Models to Evaluate Domestic and Ideologically International Attacks
Many prior studies have analyzed how country characteristics affect the rate of terrorist violence and there is a growing literature on how group traits influence terrorist violence. The current study expands on this literature by using multilevel modeling to assess both these units of analysis on the rate of domestic attacks and the rate of attacks against foreign targets. Using data from the Big Allied and Dangerous and the Global Terrorism Dat…
Exploring the crime‒terror nexus in the United States: A social network analysis of a Hezbollah network involved in trade diversion
This exploratory study examines the nexus between crime and terrorism through a social network analysis of an American-based Hezbollah network involved in trade diversion of cigarettes for self-financing purposes. The study has three goals: (1) to explore the structural characteristics of an Islamic extremist network involved in trade diversion; (2) to identify key actors in the network and their links to other network participants; and (3) to co…
Isis’s Clash of Civilizations: Constructing the “West” in Terrorist Propaganda
Depictions of the West abound in the propaganda produced by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” presenting to potentially sympathetic audiences an overwhelmingly negative image of a supposedly homogeneous political entity. Combining quantitative and qualitative language and visual analysis, we systematically expose the various facets of this image and analyze the overall picture. Drawing on the “clash of civilizations” literature as well as on r…
Opinions toward suicide: Cross-national evaluation of cultural and religious effects on individuals
Exploring the crime‒terror nexus in the United States: A social network analysis of a Hezbollah network involved in trade diversion
This exploratory study examines the nexus between crime and terrorism through a social network analysis of an American-based Hezbollah network involved in trade diversion of cigarettes for self-financing purposes. The study has three goals: (1) to explore the structural characteristics of an Islamic extremist network involved in trade diversion; (2) to identify key actors in the network and their links to other network participants; and (3) to co…
Modeling Terrorist Attacks: Assessing Statistical Models to Evaluate Domestic and Ideologically International Attacks
Many prior studies have analyzed how country characteristics affect the rate of terrorist violence and there is a growing literature on how group traits influence terrorist violence. The current study expands on this literature by using multilevel modeling to assess both these units of analysis on the rate of domestic attacks and the rate of attacks against foreign targets. Using data from the Big Allied and Dangerous and the Global Terrorism Dat…
Place matters: Contextualizing the roles of religion and race for understanding Americans' attitudes about homosexuality
Influence of Individual- and National-Level Factors on Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence
The study evaluated if individual- and national-level factors influence intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes. Using Demographic and Health Surveys' data, multilevel modeling was used to analyze 506,935 females nested in 41 nations. The results indicated that the respondents in nations with higher levels of gender inequality, measured by the Social Institutions and Gender Index, were more likely to agree a husband is justified to abuse his wi…
Reconfiguring the violent encounter? Preloading, security staff and breathalyser use in the night-time economy
Making sense of evidence: Using research training to promote organisational change
Many have argued that the development of evidence-based policing (EBP) depends on those in law enforcement agencies receiving appropriate training in research methodologies and data analysis. Despite this, there are few detailed accounts of such training and its delivery. This paper describes and evaluates the contribution of training workshops for police officers and staff in driving forward EBP. The workshops, developed based on a model used in…
Lethal Images: Analyzing Extremist Visual Propaganda from Isis and Beyond
Violent extremist groups regularly use pictures in their propaganda. This practice, however, remains insufficiently understood. Conceptualizing visual images as amplifiers of narratives and emotions, the present article offers an original theoretical framework and measurement method for examining the synchronic and diachronic study of the manipulative use of images by violent extremist groups. We illustrate this framework and method with a system…
Isis’s Clash of Civilizations: Constructing the “West” in Terrorist Propaganda
Depictions of the West abound in the propaganda produced by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” presenting to potentially sympathetic audiences an overwhelmingly negative image of a supposedly homogeneous political entity. Combining quantitative and qualitative language and visual analysis, we systematically expose the various facets of this image and analyze the overall picture. Drawing on the “clash of civilizations” literature as well as on r…
Isis Propaganda: A Full-Spectrum Extremist Message
ISIS Propaganda offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State’s (IS) propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences and using rigorous methods, the authors pursue several interconnected tasks. They trace the origins of IS’s message, they lay bare the strategic logic guiding its evolution, they examine each of its many components (magazines, videos, music, social media, etc.)…
Practical points of failure in police-university collaboration: Reconceiving knowledge exchange
Collaborative projects designed to generate research evidence involve knowledge exchange (KE) which hinges on the expectations and practices within the collaborating organisations. Existing literature about academic-police collaborations, and why they break down, has largely focused on different knowledge agendas, research timeframes and organisational cultures. In contrast, we offer a case example that attends to the failures in KE stemming from…
Domestic Abuse: Growth Curve Modeling of Harm Across Repeat Incidents with Police Data
This paper analyzes trajectories of harm across repeat domestic abuse (DA) incidents using data from one police force in England and Wales matched with the Crime Harm Index. We use growth curve modeling to identify incident and offender-victim (dyad) predictors of harm. High Incident dyads with four or more DA cases ( N = 2,610) have a non-linear decrease in harm across incidents, with distinct trajectories for Intimate Partners and male offender…
Lethal Words: An Integrated Model of Violent Extremists’ Language
Violent extremists’ communications regularly yield lethal consequences. Yet despite this importance, no clear framework yet exists that exposes in a coherent way the various markers of violent extremist language. We construct a theoretical model of violent extremists’ language, integrating and refining existing approaches from different academic fields into a comprehensive account of its semantic content and structure. We evidence the empirical a…
Political science (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Poison control (4 works)