Steven Chermak
Professor
512 Baker Hall
Biography
Steven M. Chermak is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Dr. Chermak is interested in studying terrorism, school shootings, mass shootings, criminal justice organizations, and media coverage of crime and criminal justice. Much of his work in the last ten years has focused on terrorist and extremist activity. He and several colleagues are responsible for building the Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) and the Risk and Protective Factor Database (RPFD)—both foc
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PhD 1993, State University of New York at Albany
MA 1988, State University of New York at Albany
BA 1987, Bowling Green State University
Publications
Holt, T., Stonhouse, M., Freilich, J., & Chermak, S. (2019). Examining Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks Performed by Far-Left Groups. Terrorism and Political Violence.
Gruenewald, J., Klein, B., Freilich, J., & Chermak, S. (2019). American Jihadi Terrorism: A Comparison of Homicides and Unsuccessful Plots. Terrorism and Political Violence.
Freilich, J., Parkin, W., Gruenewald, J., & Chermak, S. (2019). Comparing Extremist Perpetrators of Suicide and Non-Suicide Attacks in the United States. Terrorism and Political Violence.
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Developing a Database on Fatal and Non-Fatal School Shootings in the United States
Building a Database on Cyberterrorism Incidents
Examining Risk and Protective Factors of Violent and Non-Violent Extremists