Dr Emily Corner
Associate Professor
Institution
Australian National University
Research Area Keywords
Terrorism; Radicalisation; Mental Health; Risk Assessment; Grievance
Contact: emily.corner@anu.edu.au
About Emily
Dr Emily Corner is a Senior Lecturer of Criminology at the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University. Prior to joining the ANU, Emily was a Research Associate at the department of Security and Crime Science at University College London, working on projects examining lone and group-based terrorism, radicalisation, mass murderers, and fixated individuals. Emily holds a PhD in Security and Crime Science. Her doctoral research focused on examining mental disorders and terrorist behaviour, and won the Terrorism Research Initiatives Thesis award in 2016. She has published in leading psychology, forensic science, criminology, threat assessment, and political science journals. She has worked on research projects funded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the European Union, the National Institute of Justice, the US Department of Defence, and the Department of Home Affairs. Dr Corner also has experience working with the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre in London’s Metropolitan Police, which operates a liaison-diversion service for those deemed at risk of Grievance-Fuelled Violence. She also has well-developed relationships with other fixated threat and Grievance-Fuelled Violence centres in Australia and New Zealand.
Publications
Book Chapters
Radicalisation and psychopathology (2024)
Corner E
(in The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation Busher J, Malkki L and Marsden S (eds.))
Psychopathy and terrorist involvement (2022)
Corner E and Gill P
(in Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior: Current Trends and Challenges Marques PB., Paulino M., and Alho L. (eds))
A Risk Analysis Framework of Lone-Actor Terrorism (2022)
Bouhana, N., Corner, E. and Gill, P.
(in Lone-Actor Terrorism: An Integrated Framework, Holzer, J., Dew, A., Recupero, P. and Gill, P. (eds.)
Updating and Organizing Our Knowledge of Risk and Protective Factors for Lone Actor Terrorism (2021)
Corner E., Bouhana N., and Gill P.
(in Terrorism Risk Assessment Instruments: Contemporary Policy and Law Enforcement Challenges, Corrado R., Wössner G., and Merari A. (eds)
Lone actor use of the internet and behavioural correlates (2015)
Gill P. and Corner E.
(in Terrorism Online: Politics, Law and Technology (eds. Jarvis L., MacDonald S., and Chen T.)
Journal Articles
Modelling drivers of grievance-fuelled violence (2023)
Corner E, Taylor H and Bragias A
Editorial: Grievance-fueled violence: conceptual and empirical developments (2023)
Corner E, McEwan and Logan C
Vehicular Ramming Attacks: Assessing the Effectiveness of Situational Crime Prevention Using Crime Script Analysis (2022)
Williams A, Corner E and Taylor H
Predictors of varying levels of risks posed by fixated individuals to British public figures (2021)
Gill P., Corner E., Farnham S., Wilson S., Marchment A.
Reviewing the links between violent extremism and personality, personality disorders and psychopathy (2021)
Corner E., Taylor H., Van Der Vegt I., Salman N., Rottweiler F., et al
Pscychological distress and terrorist engagement: Measuring correlating and sequencing its onset with negative life events, social factors and protective factors (2021)
Corner E. and Gill P.
A data driven classification of outcome behaviors in those who cause concern to British public figures (2021)
Clemmow C., Gill P., Corner E., Farnham F., Taylor R., and Wilson S.
Assessing the behavioural trajectories of terrorists: The role of psychological resilience (2021)
Corner E., Taylor H., and Clemmow C.
Terrorist decision making in the context of risk, attack planning and attack commission
Gill P., Marchment Z., Corner E., and Bouhana N. (2020)
Psychological distress, terrorist involvement and disengagement from terrorism: A sequence analysis approach (2020)
Corner E. and Gill P.
The multi finality of vulnerability indicators in lone actor terrorism (2019)
Corner E., Bouhana N., and Gill P.
The rational foraging terrorist: analysing the distances travelled to commit terrorist violence (2019)
Gill, P., Horgan J., and Corner E.
Background and preparatory behaviours of right wing extremist lone actors: a comparative study (2018)
Bouhana N., Corner E., Gill P. and Schuurman B.
Mental disorders, personality traits and grievance fuelled targeted violence: the evidence base and implications for research and practice (2018)
Corner E., Gill P., Schouten R. and Farnham F.
Terrorist use of the Internet by the numbers: Quantifying behaviors, patterns, and processes (2017)
Gill P., Corner E., Conway M., Thornton A., Bloom M., and Horgan J.
Read
There and back again: The study of mental disorder and terrorist involvement (2017)
Gill P., and Corner E.
Is There a Nexus Between Terrorist Involvement and Mental Health in the Age of the Islamic State? (2017)
Corner E. and Gill P.
Mental health disorders and the terrorist: A research note probing selection effects and disorder prevalence (2016)
Corner E., Gill P., and Mason O.
Lone Actor Terrorist Target Choice (2016)
Gill P. and Corner E.
A false dichotomy? Mental illness and lone actor terrorism (2015)
Corner E. and Gill P.
Reports
Across the universe? A comparative analysis of violent behavior and radicalization across three offender types with implications for criminal justice training and education (2016)
Horgan J., Gill P., Bouhana N., Silver J. and Corner E.
What are the roles of the internet in terrorism? Measuring online behaviours of convicted UK terrorists (2015)
Gill P., Corner E., Thornton A. And Conway M.