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Black Swans and Burstiness: Countering Myths About Terrorism w/ Gary LaFree |
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Start Date: | 11/13/2015 | Start Time: | 3:00 PM |
End Date: | 11/13/2015 | End Time: | 5:00 PM |
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Event Description:
Black Swans and Burstiness: Countering Myths About Terrorism w/ Gary LaFree
November 13, 2015
3:00PM - 5:00PM
New Building, L.63
Gary LaFree is professor of criminology and criminal justice and director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. During 2005-2006, Dr. LaFree served as president of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and was named a fellow of the ASC in 2006. He has also served as the past president of the ASC’s Division on International Criminology, the chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Crime, Law and Deviance, the Executive Board of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Executive Committee of the Justice Research Statistics Association. While at the University of Maryland, Dr. LaFree has been a founding member of the Democracy Collaborative and an invited member of the National Consortium of Violence Research. Dr. LaFree has written over 80 articles and book chapters and five books, mostly looking at criminal and political violence His most recent book, titled Criminology Theory and Terrorism: New Applications and Approaches, was co-authored with Dr. Joshua Freilich of John Jay College. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University in 1979.
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Location Information: New Building (View Map) 59th Street and Eleventh Avenue New York, NY
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