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Stalking communications and terrorism manifestos

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Terrorism and social media — Julia Kupper & Reid Meloy

2025

Going dark redux: the 2018 Capital Gazette mass murder

Reid Meloy & Julia Kupper — Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

Pioneering artificial intelligence integration into forensic risk assessment: applying ChatGPT-4o to the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol–18

Marvin Acklin, Kailey Topping, Julia Kupper & Reid Meloy — Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

2024

Decoding terrorism: an interdisciplinary approach to a lone-actor case

Julia Kupper, Marie Bojsen-Møller, Tanya Karoli Christensen, Dakota Wing, Marcus Papadopulos & Sharon Smith — Cambridge University Press

Terrorgram’s propaganda — an overview of publications designed to incite accelerationist terrorism attacks

Julia Kupper & Miro Dittrich — Accelerationism Research Consortium

How language analysis can enhance threat assessment

Julia Kupper — The Maze: Fixated Risk Management Bulletin 

Practical forensic and tactical linguistics in investigations

Julia Kupper — ASIS International Security Management

Special report: analysis of Ryan Palmeter’s targeted violence manifesto

Julia Kupper — Accelerationism Research Consortium [available upon request for law enforcement and intelligence agencies]

2023

Going dark: the inverse relationship between online and on the ground pre-offense behaviors in targeted attackers

Julia Kupper & Reid Meloy — Global Network on Extremism & Technology

The Hanau terror attack: unraveling the dynamics of mental disorder and extremist beliefs

Julia Kupper, Patricia Cotti & Reid Meloy — Journal of Threat Assessment and Management 

Terrorgram's first saint: analyzing accelerationist terrorism in Bratislava

Julia Kupper, Kacper Rekawek & Matthew Kriner — Accelerationism Research Consortium

The Reichsbürger coup: how the German COVID-19 denier scene and anti-lockdown movement became a breeding ground for terrorism

Julia Kupper & Miro Dittrich — Global Network on Extremism and Technology

Linguistics and threat assessment: how the analysis of language can assist in preventing workplace and campus violence

Julia Kupper & Stephen White — Work Trauma Services Inc.

2022

The contagion and copycat effect in transnational far-right terrorism: an analysis of language evidence

Julia Kupper, Tanya Karoli Christensen, Dakota Wing, Marlon Hurt, Matthew Schumacher & Reid Meloy — Perspectives on Terrorism

Preventing attacks using targeted violence manifestos

• Julia Kupper — FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

The venomous rhetorical web of far-right terrorists

• Julia Kupper — Global Network on Extremism and Technology

2021

TRAP-18 indicators validated through the forensic linguistic analysis of targeted violence manifestos

• Julia Kupper & Reid Meloy — Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

Words of suicide: identifying suicidal risk in written communications

• Amendra Shrestha, Nazar Akrami, Lisa Kaati, Julia Kupper & Matt Schumacher — IEEE Xplore

Linguistic comparison: manifestos of extremists (2020)

This infographic highlights shared themes of five right-wing manifestos written by violent extremists. Thematic similarities and differences are presented in a tabular view. All findings are derived from the content of the manifestos.

Linguistic comparison: suicide notes vs. manifestos (2019)

This infographic discusses linguistic similarities and differences of suicide notes and manifestos. It highlights common and contrasting themes, as well as distinctive features in production and distribution, illustrated by real-life examples.