Publications

Our book Perceptions of a Pandemic: A Cross-Continental Comparison of Citizen Perception, Attitudes, and Behaviors During Covid-19 published by Emerald Press was released in early 2025. The book is the result of a year’s collaboration between the Center of Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, the Virginia Tech Libraries, and the University of Turku in Finland. In addition, the CPSVP is planning a traditional conference about crime in Appalachia in the fall of 2026 that will gather scholars who are specialists in rural crime and crime in Appalachia. The plan will be to invite selected presenters to an authors’ workshop that will result in a book consisting of the papers presented and discussed there.

Hawdon, James, Matthew Costello, and Pekka Räsänen. Forthcoming. Online Hate and Extremism: Patterns of Production, Exposure, and Interventions in a Cross-National Context. Emerald Publishing.