Would you press a button to kill the president? Willingness to engage in political violence and its implications for terrorism sting operations
Would you press a button to kill the president? Willingness to engage in political violence and its implications for terrorism sting operations
Jesse J. Norris Joseph P. McFall Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk a Department of Sociocultural and Justice Sciences, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, USAb Children’s Institute, Rochester, New York, USAc Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York, USAJesse J. Norris is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Fredonia. In a series of empirical projects, he has examined terrorism sting operations in the US and elsewhere, with a particular focus on entrapment. His research has also analysed racial disparities in the criminal justice system, earned release from prison, and unconventional forms of terrorism.Joseph P. McFall is the Managing Director of Data and Science at the Children’s Institute. He was previously the Department Chairperson and Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Interested in applied cognition during everyday life, Dr McFall’s research interests have included problem-solving effectiveness, decision-making outcomes, and transition into adulthood. Dr McFall is currently co-leading an international research collaborative on emerging adulthood with the goal of diversifying perspectives and facilitating culture exchange on understanding behavioral and attitudinal trends that impact emerging adults’ health, wellbeing, and participation in society.Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk is a medical sociologist and demographer. Much of her research focuses on chronic pain: its measurement, its social distribution, and its predictors and consequences. She is a principal investigator on a National Institute on Aging-funded project on “The Demography of Chronic Pain: A Population Approach to Pain Trends, Pain Disparities, and Pain-Related Disability and Death” (1R01 AG065351; 2020-2025). She also conducts research on how surveys can best generate interpersonally and internationally comparable measures of subjective health conditions and on U.S. counterterrorism policy. She is an associate professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.