Wesley S Mccann
Biographic Data
| ID | 937540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wesley S Mccann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wesley S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccann |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANN W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0332-3724 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
An Analysis of 287(g) Program Adoption and Support for Sanctuary Policies
An Analysis of 287(g) Program Memorandums of Agreement
Islamic Extremism and CBRN Terrorism
The extant literature on the relationship between religious ideology and CBRN weapons pursuit lacks a strong empirical basis. To address this, the current study utilizes a new dataset – the CBRN Terrorism Database (CTD) – to evaluate whether Islamic actors are more or less likely to pursue CBRN weapons. Binary logistic regression models are used on several different constrained subsamples to assess the relationship between ideology, group-, and c…
Assessing equifinality in Islamic extremist pathways using fsQCA
This study uses a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine the radicalization pathways of Islamic extremists in the United States from 1980 to 2018. This study draws on the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database to examine the role of individual-, experiential-, contextual-, and familial-level conditions – or push and pull factors- on the radicalization process. More specifically, this stu…
Outbreak
Only a few studies on biological terrorism have ever been conducted empirically. Many of these focus on CBRN terrorism as a whole, rather than biological terrorism, specifically. Other accounts utilize a case- or historical analysis instead. This study serves as the most comprehensive empirical assessment of bioterrorism to date by drawing on the Profiles of Incidents involving CBRN and Non-State Actors (POICN) Database at START as well as additi…
Eliminating Extremism
The distinction between hate crime and terrorism is a contentious legal issue that impacts how respective crimes are labeled and prosecuted. Using a legal content analysis, this study examines what central legal elements comprise hate crimes and terrorism, respectively, for each state to discern their legal differences. The analysis along with exegesis of terrorism and hate crime definitions enumerated in state law demonstrates that these crimes …
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
Immigrants, Crime, and the American Dream
The immigrant-crime relationship is often misunderstood and highly complex. To date, criminological research has largely ignored theory testing of this relationship. This paper examines the extant literature on intergenerational offending amongst immigrant youth and subsequently tests whether the segmented assimilation theory- a theory borrowed from the interdisciplinary social sciences- adequately explains immigrant offending. The study uses dat…
Who Said We Were Terrorists? Issues with Terrorism Data and Inclusion Criteria
This article examines the reliability of “terrorism” classifications within the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) by looking at its inclusion criteria as well as filtering mechanisms for ensuring quality case inclusion. Using several descriptive analyses, this article examines how various measures within the GTD affect researcher’s ability to adequately analyze various patterns or trends of offending. The underlying limitations of the data, namely …
Mixed Mandates
Defining terrorism continues to be a problematic task for scholars, politicians, and government officials. Research has shown that developing a single definition of terrorism is not only unlikely, but also quite difficult. Definitions of terrorism can arguably be influenced by cultural, social, and political factors. This study qualitatively examines state criminal law and federal organizational definitions of terrorism to discern what elements a…
The Invisible Scholar
This study assesses the authorship of legal scholarship within 20 criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals from 2005 through 2015, examining trends over time and variation across journals in the prevalence of sole-authorship and the mean number of authors and identifying the most prolific authors of legal scholarship published in CCJ journals. The study thus sheds light on the extent of collaboration among CCJ legal scholars and identifies…
An Analysis of Certificates of Rehabilitation in the United States
An impediment to offender reintegration and rehabilitation is so-called collateral consequences—restrictions imposed by state and/or federal laws that apply to people who have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated. Some laws limit formerly incarcerated individuals’ eligibility for certain occupations and professional licensure and substantially restrict employment opportunities. In this paper, we examine bars on employment and licensure and t…
Persona Non Grata
Recently, concern has been voiced within the academy regarding the marginalization of legal scholarship within the criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) discipline. Although conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence indicate that it is difficult to get legal scholarship published in CCJ journals, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the representation of legal scholarship in CCJ journals. The present study assesses the representation of l…
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
Immigrants, Crime, and the American Dream
The immigrant-crime relationship is often misunderstood and highly complex. To date, criminological research has largely ignored theory testing of this relationship. This paper examines the extant literature on intergenerational offending amongst immigrant youth and subsequently tests whether the segmented assimilation theory- a theory borrowed from the interdisciplinary social sciences- adequately explains immigrant offending. The study uses dat…
Who Said We Were Terrorists? Issues with Terrorism Data and Inclusion Criteria
This article examines the reliability of “terrorism” classifications within the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) by looking at its inclusion criteria as well as filtering mechanisms for ensuring quality case inclusion. Using several descriptive analyses, this article examines how various measures within the GTD affect researcher’s ability to adequately analyze various patterns or trends of offending. The underlying limitations of the data, namely …
An Analysis of 287(g) Program Memorandums of Agreement
An Analysis of Certificates of Rehabilitation in the United States
An impediment to offender reintegration and rehabilitation is so-called collateral consequences—restrictions imposed by state and/or federal laws that apply to people who have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated. Some laws limit formerly incarcerated individuals’ eligibility for certain occupations and professional licensure and substantially restrict employment opportunities. In this paper, we examine bars on employment and licensure and t…
Eliminating Extremism
The distinction between hate crime and terrorism is a contentious legal issue that impacts how respective crimes are labeled and prosecuted. Using a legal content analysis, this study examines what central legal elements comprise hate crimes and terrorism, respectively, for each state to discern their legal differences. The analysis along with exegesis of terrorism and hate crime definitions enumerated in state law demonstrates that these crimes …
Mixed Mandates
Defining terrorism continues to be a problematic task for scholars, politicians, and government officials. Research has shown that developing a single definition of terrorism is not only unlikely, but also quite difficult. Definitions of terrorism can arguably be influenced by cultural, social, and political factors. This study qualitatively examines state criminal law and federal organizational definitions of terrorism to discern what elements a…
Persona Non Grata
Recently, concern has been voiced within the academy regarding the marginalization of legal scholarship within the criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) discipline. Although conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence indicate that it is difficult to get legal scholarship published in CCJ journals, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the representation of legal scholarship in CCJ journals. The present study assesses the representation of l…
The Invisible Scholar
This study assesses the authorship of legal scholarship within 20 criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals from 2005 through 2015, examining trends over time and variation across journals in the prevalence of sole-authorship and the mean number of authors and identifying the most prolific authors of legal scholarship published in CCJ journals. The study thus sheds light on the extent of collaboration among CCJ legal scholars and identifies…
An Analysis of Certificates of Rehabilitation in the United States
An impediment to offender reintegration and rehabilitation is so-called collateral consequences—restrictions imposed by state and/or federal laws that apply to people who have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated. Some laws limit formerly incarcerated individuals’ eligibility for certain occupations and professional licensure and substantially restrict employment opportunities. In this paper, we examine bars on employment and licensure and t…
Who Said We Were Terrorists? Issues with Terrorism Data and Inclusion Criteria
This article examines the reliability of “terrorism” classifications within the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) by looking at its inclusion criteria as well as filtering mechanisms for ensuring quality case inclusion. Using several descriptive analyses, this article examines how various measures within the GTD affect researcher’s ability to adequately analyze various patterns or trends of offending. The underlying limitations of the data, namely …
Mixed Mandates
Defining terrorism continues to be a problematic task for scholars, politicians, and government officials. Research has shown that developing a single definition of terrorism is not only unlikely, but also quite difficult. Definitions of terrorism can arguably be influenced by cultural, social, and political factors. This study qualitatively examines state criminal law and federal organizational definitions of terrorism to discern what elements a…
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
Immigrants, Crime, and the American Dream
The immigrant-crime relationship is often misunderstood and highly complex. To date, criminological research has largely ignored theory testing of this relationship. This paper examines the extant literature on intergenerational offending amongst immigrant youth and subsequently tests whether the segmented assimilation theory- a theory borrowed from the interdisciplinary social sciences- adequately explains immigrant offending. The study uses dat…
Assessing equifinality in Islamic extremist pathways using fsQCA
This study uses a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine the radicalization pathways of Islamic extremists in the United States from 1980 to 2018. This study draws on the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database to examine the role of individual-, experiential-, contextual-, and familial-level conditions – or push and pull factors- on the radicalization process. More specifically, this stu…
Outbreak
Only a few studies on biological terrorism have ever been conducted empirically. Many of these focus on CBRN terrorism as a whole, rather than biological terrorism, specifically. Other accounts utilize a case- or historical analysis instead. This study serves as the most comprehensive empirical assessment of bioterrorism to date by drawing on the Profiles of Incidents involving CBRN and Non-State Actors (POICN) Database at START as well as additi…
Eliminating Extremism
The distinction between hate crime and terrorism is a contentious legal issue that impacts how respective crimes are labeled and prosecuted. Using a legal content analysis, this study examines what central legal elements comprise hate crimes and terrorism, respectively, for each state to discern their legal differences. The analysis along with exegesis of terrorism and hate crime definitions enumerated in state law demonstrates that these crimes …
Islamic Extremism and CBRN Terrorism
The extant literature on the relationship between religious ideology and CBRN weapons pursuit lacks a strong empirical basis. To address this, the current study utilizes a new dataset – the CBRN Terrorism Database (CTD) – to evaluate whether Islamic actors are more or less likely to pursue CBRN weapons. Binary logistic regression models are used on several different constrained subsamples to assess the relationship between ideology, group-, and c…
An Analysis of 287(g) Program Adoption and Support for Sanctuary Policies
An Analysis of 287(g) Program Memorandums of Agreement
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…
Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Terrorism (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)