Dr. Jesse Norris

Teaching Interests

Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminology, Sociology of Terrorism, Senior Seminar

Research Interests

Criminal Law, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Entrapment, Racial Disparities

Intellectual Contributions

• "“If Abortions Aren’t Safe, Neither Are You:” A Mixed-Method Study of Jane’s Revenge and Other Post-Dobbs Militancy," Journal for Deradicalization (2022).
• "Another Form of American Exceptionalism? A Comparative Analysis of Terrorism Sting Operations in the US and Abroad," Terrorism and Political Violence (2021).
• "How Entrapment Still Matters: Partial Successes of Entrapment Claims in Terrorism Prosecutions," Bringing Rights to Life (Edited by Austin Sarat) (2020).
• "Accounting for the (Almost Complete) Failure of the Entrapment Defense in Post-9/11 US Terrorism Cases," Law & Social Inquiry (2020).
• "Idiosyncratic Terrorism: Disaggregating an Undertheorized Concept," Perspectives on Terrorism (2020).
• "Policing Terrorism: Research Studies into Police Counterterrorism Investigations: by David Lowe, Boca Raton, CRC Press, 2019, 202 pp., $45.33 (paperback), ISBN-13: 9780367869366," Terrorism and Political Violence (2020).
• "When (and where) can right-wing terrorists be charged with terrorism?," Critical Studies on Terrorism (2020).
• "Explaining the Emergence of Entrapment in Post-9/11 Terrorism Investigations," Critical Criminology (2019).
• "Entrapment allegations in right-wing terrorism cases: A mixed-methods analysis," International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (2018).
• "Racial and Other Sociodemographic Disparities in Terrorism Sting Operations," Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (2018).
• "Temporal trends in US counterterrorism sting operations, 1989–2014," Critical Studies on Terrorism (2017).
• "Why Dylann Roof is a Terrorist Under Federal Law, and Why It Matters," Harvard Journal on Legislation (2017).
• "Estimating the Prevalence of Entrapment in Post-9/11 Terrorism Cases," Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (2016).
• "Entrapment and Terrorism on the Left: An Analysis of Post-9/11 Cases," New Criminal Law Review (2016).

Presentations

• "Another Form of American Exceptionalism? A Comparative Analysis of Terrorism Sting Operations in the US and Abroad," Annual Meeting (2018).
• "Explaining the (Almost Complete) Failure of the Entrapment Defense in Post-9/11 Terrorism Cases," Annual Meetings (2016).