Binneh S. Minteh is an assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Salem State University. He is a former Gambian Armed Forces First Lieutenant. He attended the Turkish Land Forces Command School in Istanbul and the Turkish Gendarmerie Officers School in Ankara. He was the Gambia National Gendarmerie training school commander, where he taught courses on National Security, Police and Society, Intelligence, Leadership, and Terrorism and Counterterrorism. He immigrated to the United States in 1997 as a refugee. Dr. Binneh Minteh has published articles on terrorism and counterterrorism, social movements, police and society, organized crime, cybercrime, cyberspace and cybersecurity. His research interests include social movements, peace and security studies, terrorism and counterterrorism, cybercrime, organized crime, and police and society.
James Bacigalupo is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His primary focus is on domestic political extremism. He is currently exploring the impact of partisanship on counterterrorism. James also applies his real-world experience from his full-time role as a correctional officer in Boston, MA, to the topic of institutional corrections, where he has gained insights into areas including inmate subcultures, misconduct, and rehabilitation.
Kevin Borgeson is an associate professor of Criminal Justice and former research fellow for the Center for Holocaust and Genocidal Studies at Salem State University. Dr. Borgeson has published articles and op-eds on skinheads, cyberhate, profiling, serial crime, and right-wing domestic terrorism for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Buffalo News, USA Today, and the London Daily Telegraph. Dr Borgeson is the author and editor of ten books covering the topics of serial crime, skinheads, domestic terrorism in the United States, cyberhate, and criminal profiling. He has appeared on media outlets in Canada, Great Britain, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine and India, as well as the United States, as an expert on hate crimes, hate groups, domestic terrorism, serial offenders, and child abductions. Over the past 25 years, Professor Borgeson has worked as a consultant to various law enforcement agencies conducting profiles and case linkage analysis, assisting in cold cases of serial murder, serial rape, and child abduction. Dr Borgeson has served as a consultant to many colleges and universities on issues dealing with hate on campus and is the main editor and researcher for the website Understanding Deviance, which provides op-eds, podcasts, and analysis of serial crime, both domestic and international.
Robin Maria Valeri is a professor of psychology at St. Bonaventure University. Valeri studies hate, extremism, and terrorism, with an emphasis on the role cyberspace plays in the spread of hate and terrorism, especially on the social influence tactics used by purveyors of hate and terrorism to convince potential acolytes to accept extremist beliefs and act on them.
