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Emotional Correlates of Radicalization and TerrorismStephen K. Rice, Seattle University (ricest@seattleu.edu)Robert Agnew, Emory University (bagnew@emory.edu)Limited attention has been paid to the intersection of emotions and the etiology of terrorism.Instead, research priorities have tended to focus on the structural (e.g., poverty; weak and failingstates), sociopolitical (e.g., U.S. foreign policy), or dialectical. The aim of this study is to outlinean agenda which transitions discourse related to the “body” of the terrorist (i.e., his/her historicaland social positioning) to one focused on intrapsychic and interpersonal emotional processes. Inour view, criminology is well suited to assess the expressive byproducts of humiliated fury,contempt, moral outrage, and disgust and how such emotions may distillate as impulses that forma basis for terror. One compelling theoretical lens is provided by strain-based explanations ofterrorism, whereby collective strains increase the likelihood of terrorism under select conditions.Female Desistance from Criminal Offending: Exploring Gender Similarities andDifferencesElaine Gunnison, Seattle University (gunnisone@seattleu.edu)Over the past several decades, researchers have more fervently examined female offending. Thecriminal career research paradigm put forth by Blumstein and colleagues in 1986 offers anopportunity for researchers to examine offending, including female offending, from multipleperspectives including onset, persistence, and desistance from a multitude of theoreticaltraditions (e.g., psychological & sociological). The purpose of this presentation is to provide abrief overview of theoretical perspectives on female offending as they relate to desistance as wellas presenting research results from an investigation into female desistance using data from wave6 of the National Youth Survey. The results from the examination of the similarities and/ordifferences between female and male discrete offender groups (desisters, persisters, late onseters,and conformers) and theoretical predictors of desistance from general delinquency will beprovided. The research and policy implications will be discussed.Beyond RNR: Risk Limits ResponsivityFaye Taxman, George Mason University (ftaxman@gmu.edu)James Byrne, University of Massachusetts (profbyrne@hotmail.com)391