Jeff A. Gruenewald
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Also affiliated: Florida International University (2009); Indiana University Indianapolis (2016–2018); Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (2015–2020); University of Maryland, College Park (2014); Michigan State University (2006–2009)
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Biography and Research Information
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Jeff A. Gruenewald's research focuses on crime, extremism, and violence. He has investigated the characteristics of "loner" attacks within domestic extremist violence and compared ideologically-motivated homicides from specialized databases with those from broader crime reports, employing statistical methods to address missing data.
His work also examines the relationship between hate groups and far-right ideological violence, and he is involved in developing and utilizing databases such as the United States Extremis Crime Database (ECDB). Gruenewald has also explored the influence of media coverage on public perceptions of police misconduct and the factors contributing to the newsworthiness of homicide incidents, considering variables like race and gender.
With an h-index of 21 and over 1,800 citations across 92 publications, Gruenewald's scholarship is recognized as high-impact. He has served as Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation REU Site grant totaling $343,163 for "Connecting Research to Practice in Crime Analytics." His collaborations include work with colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, such as Katie Ratcliff, Grant Drawve, Kaitlyn Campbell, and Kayla Allison.
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- h-index: 21
- Publications: 88
- Citations: 1,882
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Professor 2022–presentUniversity of Arkansas Sociology & Criminology ORCID
Selected Publications
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Investigating the Newsworthiness of Bias-Motivated Murders: A Media Distortion Analysis (2026)
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An Open-Source Data Approach to Studying Bias Murder: An Introduction to the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB) (2026)
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What Went Wrong: A Comparison of Unsuccessful and Completed Extreme Far-Right Plots in the United States (2025)
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Bias-Motivated Violence and the Likelihood of Fatal Outcomes: A Criminal Event Perspective and Mixed-Method Approach (2025)
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Growth opportunities in American and British terrorism research (2023)
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Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States (2022)
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Criminal Justice Responses to Right-Wing Extremist (RWE) Violence in the United States (2022)
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Introduction: Situating Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States (2022)
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Far-Right Extremist Violence in the United States (2022)
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Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States (2022)
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“The Perfect Aryan Housewife”: Intersection of Extremist Violence and Violence Against Women (2022)
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Gender and Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism in the United States (2021)
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Far-Right Extremism’s Threat to Police Safety and the Organizational Legitimacy of Law Enforcement in the United States (2021)
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Book review: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, <i>Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far-Right</i> (2021)
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Attributing Responsibility When Police Officers are Killed in the Line of Duty: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Local Print News Media Frames (2021)
Federal Grants 1 $343,163 total
REU Site: Connecting Research to Practice in Crime Analytics
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Top Collaborators
- Distinguishing “Loner” Attacks from Other Domestic Extremist Violence
- Introducing the United States Extremis Crime Database (ECDB)
- The Relationship Between Hate Groups and Far-Right Ideological Violence
- Far-Right Lone Wolf Homicides in the United States
- Covering Victims in the News: What Makes Minority Homicides Newsworthy?
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
- Distinguishing “Loner” Attacks from Other Domestic Extremist Violence
- Introducing the United States Extremis Crime Database (ECDB)
- The Relationship Between Hate Groups and Far-Right Ideological Violence
- Far-Right Lone Wolf Homicides in the United States
- The future of terrorism research: a review essay
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Introducing the United States Extremis Crime Database (ECDB)
- Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States
- Far-Right Extremism’s Threat to Police Safety and the Organizational Legitimacy of Law Enforcement in the United States
- Quantitative Studies on Media and Crime
- Far-Right Extremist Violence in the United States
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach
- Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States
- Far-Right Extremist Violence in the United States
- Examining Disparities in Case Dispositions and Sentencing Outcomes for Domestic Violent Extremists in the United States
- “The Perfect Aryan Housewife”: Intersection of Extremist Violence and Violence Against Women
- Bias-Motivated Violence and the Likelihood of Fatal Outcomes: A Criminal Event Perspective and Mixed-Method Approach
- Restorativeness, Procedural Justice, and Defiance as Predictors of Reoffending of Participants in Family Group Conferences
- Attributing Responsibility When Police Officers are Killed in the Line of Duty: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Local Print News Media Frames
- Accomplishing Masculinity through Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Homicide
- Exploring Anti-LGBT Homicide by Mode of Victim Selection
- Far-Right Extremism’s Threat to Police Safety and the Organizational Legitimacy of Law Enforcement in the United States
- Far-Right Extremist Violence in the United States
- Gender and Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism in the United States
- Criminal Justice Responses to Right-Wing Extremist (RWE) Violence in the United States
- Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States
- Introduction: Situating Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States
- Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States
- Introduction: Situating Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States
- Restorativeness, Procedural Justice, and Defiance as Predictors of Reoffending of Participants in Family Group Conferences
- Introducing the United States Extremis Crime Database (ECDB)
- Hispanic Immigration and Black Violence at the Macro‐Level: Examining the Conditioning Effect of Victim Race/Ethnicity
- Hispanic Immigration and Black Violence at the Macro‐Level: Examining the Conditioning Effect of Victim Race/Ethnicity
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