Joshua D. Freilich is the Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Ph.D. program and a member of the Criminal Justice Department at John Jay College, the City University of New York. He is a lead investigator for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Center for Excellence of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as a member of the Terrorism Research and Analysis Project (TRAP), which is sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Behavioral Science unit (BSU). Freilich’s research focuses on domestic terrorism as well as criminological theory. His research has been funded by DHS directly as well as through START. Freilich is currently the principal investigator (with Steven Chermak) on the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) study, a large-scale data-collection effort that is building the first-of-its-kind relational database of crimes committed by far-right, Jihadist, and animal rights and environmental rights extremists in the United States reported in an open source.
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