Gary LaFree is Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.Laura Dugan is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. She is co-principal investigator for the GTD and the Government Actions in Terrorist Environments (GATE) dataset. Erin Miller is co-principal investigator and program manager for the GTD at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).

1. The Enduring Impact of 9/11 2. The Creation of the Global Terrorism Database 3. Tracking Worldwide Terrorism Trends 4. The Spatial Distribution of Terroism Around the World and in the United States 5. Life Spans and Attach Patterns of Terrorism Organizations 6. Terrorism Weapons, Targets and Tactics 7. Challenging Conventional Wisdom on the Deadliness of Terrorism Attacks 8. International and Domestic Terrorism 9. Tactical Innovations of Terrorists 10. Government Responses to Terrorism 11. Putting Terrorism into Context

This is the first book that provides a comprehensive empirical overview of the nature and evolution of both modern transnational and domestic terrorism, based on statistical data.