Michael H. Becker, M.A. is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology at American University in Washington, DC.
His research interests include the individual and group correlates of support for, and participation in violent extremism, process and outcome measures in P/CVE programming, and theoretical testing. His work has been featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the European Journal of Criminology, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Criminology & Criminal Justice, and Terrorism and Political Violence.
Recent Publications
The Not-So-Silent “Majority”: An Automated Content Analysis of Anti-Government Online Communities
Bethany Leap, Michael H. Becker
Perspectives on Terrorism, vol. 17(1), 2023, pp. 103-123
Daniel Koehler, Gordon Clubb, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Michael H. Becker, Michael J. Williams
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2023
Daren Fisher, Michael H. Becker
Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2023
Katarzyna Jasko, Gary LaFree, James Piazza, Michael H. Becker
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119(30), 2022
Michael H Becker
Criminology & Criminal Justice, vol. 21, 2021, pp. 669-686
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Projects
Politically Salient Stress and Support for Political Violence
An ongoing series of studies examining the relationship between politically salient stress and support for political violence.
Web Scraping for Prospective Data Collection
This project is an ongoing application of novel data collection methods to study for formation and adoption of extremist attitudes online.
Decision-Making and Support for Political Violence
This an ongoing set of studies examining the relationship between measures of decision-making and support for the use of political violence.
United States Federal and State Twitter Project
A Twitter web-scraper for all official accounts of members of the United States Congress, U.S. Governors, and National-Security relevant Federal Executive positions.
Posts
Eradicate Hate Global Summit 2024
How pardoning extremists undermines the rule of law
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A Budget for Data Transparency and National Security
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