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Gary LaFree
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 135
Citations - 6415
Gary LaFree is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terrorism & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 131 publications receiving 5884 citations. Previous affiliations of Gary LaFree include National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism & California Department of Justice.
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Introducing the Global Terrorism Database
Gary LaFree,Laura Dugan +1 more
TL;DR: The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is described, a previously unavailable open source data base that includes some 70,000 domestic and international incidents since 1970 is described and descriptive statistics on the contents of this new resource are provided.
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Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime And The Decline Of Social Institutions In America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed common explanations of crime in post-war America, focusing on the American family, criminal justice, education, and welfare, and institutional responses to the Legitimacy crisis.
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The Situational Analysis of Crime and Deviance
Christopher Birkbeck,Gary LaFree +1 more
TL;DR: In the late 1940s, Sutherland proposed that explanations of deviance and crime are either situational or dispositional, and that of the two, situational explanations might be the more important as discussed by the authors.
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Rape and Criminal Justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the legal process of rape cases in the criminal justice system and the social control of women in the context of criminal justice and criminal justice systems, including the role of the victim and the police.
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The impact of british counterterrorist strategies on political violence in northern ireland: comparing deterrence and backlash models*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify six major British strategies aimed at reducing political violence in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1992 and then use a Cox proportional hazard model to estimate the impact of these interventions on the risk of new attacks.