Publications

Blazak, Randall. 2023. “Can Credible Messengers Impact Authoritarian Personalities?: Strategies to Interrupt Extremist Violence” in Extremism in New Times, Lexington Books (forthcoming).

towers, sherry, Randall Blazak, Ryan Nakade, and Jack Wippell. 2023 “Violent Right-Wing Radicals in the US, 2016-2021: Assessing Individual and Community Levels of Infection, Risk and Resilience to Extremism,”  in the Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community (August 2023).

Blazak, Randy. 2023. “The Soul Crushing Death of Sinéad O’Connor, Who I Should Have HelpeD,” in Counterpunch (July 28, 2023).

BLAZAK, RANDALL. 2022. “REVISITING WHITE BOYS (FROM PORTLAND TO UKRAINE): ANOMIE AND RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM,” IN AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST.

BLAZAK, RANDY. 2022. “UNDERSTANDING EXTREMISM: FRAMES OF ANALYSIS OF THE FAR RIGHT,” IN CROSS-BORDER HATE: RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, BARBARA PERRY (ED.).

Blazak, Randy. 2022. “Ripples of Hate: Measuring How Hate Crimes Hurt More,” in Islamophobia and Acts of Violence: The Targeting and Victimization of American Muslims, CAROLYN PETROSINO (ED.), Oxford University Press.

BLAZAK, RANDY. 2021. “ON THE VERGE OF CIVIL WAR: THE NEED FOR SCHOLARSHIP IN AN ERA OF RISING EXTREMISM,” IN CRIMINOLOGY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, LAW & SOCIETy..

Blazak, Randy. 2019.”He murdered my child: Meditations on christchurch and the sociopathy of white supremacy,” in Peace Chronicle, Vol. 11 No. 1 (Summer 2019).

Walter Robinson II and Randy Blazak. 2019. Broadway Corridor: Cultural and Historical Resources Report, produced for ZGF Architects LLP (May 2019).

BLAZAK, RANDY. 2018. "WHITE SUPREMACIST MEN SEE WHITE MANHOOD UNDER SEIGE," IN HUFFINGTON POST (MARCH 28, 2018).

Blazak, Randy. 2017. “Fascists Fall for Trump,  Their Nazi Dream Date,” in CounterPunch (August 14, 2017).

Blazak, Randy. 2016. The Dream Police: A Rock Novel, Seattle, WA: CreateSpace Publishing.

Blazak, Randy. 2016. “How David Bowie Bent My Gender,” in The Gay & Lesbian Review (March-April 2016).

Blazak, Randy. 2016. “Thugs, Bullies, and Donald J. Trump: The Perils of Wounded Masculinity,” in CounterPunch (May 27, 2016).

Blazak, Randy. 2016. “Ants from Uranus,” in A Journey of Words, Brian Paone (ed.), Yokosuka, Japan: Scout Media.

Blazak, Randy. 2016. “The Oregon Citizen Alliance,” entry in The Oregon Encyclopedia

Blazak, Randy. 2016. “Who the hell is supporting Donald Trump?,” in CounterPunch (March 11, 2016).

Blazak, Randy. 2015. “University administrators allow fraternities to turn colleges into rape factories,” in CounterPunch (September 1, 2015). 

Blazak, Randy. 2015. “Elvis is My Rider,” in A Matter of Words, Brian Paone (ed.), Yokosuka, Japan: Scout Media.

Blazak, Randy. 2015. “Donald Trump is the new face of white supremacy,” in CounterPunch (August 28, 2015).

Blazak, Randy. 2012. Hate Rock 101, Pacific Standard (August 7, 2012),

Blazak. Randy. 2011. “Isn’t Every Crime a Hate Crime? The Case for Hate Crime Laws.” Sociology Compass, Vol. 4, No. 4: 244–255 (April 2011).

Blazak, Randy. 2011. The Mission of the Sacred Heart: A Rock Novel, Seattle, WA: CreateSpace Publishing. (Currently in development as a screenplay.)

Blazak, Randy. 2010. “Albert K. Cohen: Deviance as a Process,” The Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory, Frank Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (eds.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

Perry, Barbara and Randy Blazak. 2010. “Places for Races: The White Supremacist Movement Imagines US Geography,” The Journal of Hate Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1: 9-28  (November 2010).

Blazak, Randy. 2009. “The Prison Hate Machine,” in Criminology & Public Policy, Vol. 8 No. 3 (August 2009). 

Blazak, Randy. 2009. “When Odin Beats Jesus: Using Racist Religion to Do Gender in Prison,” in Hate Offenders, Randy Blazak (ed.), Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.

Blazak, Randy. 2009. “Interview with a Hate Offender,” in Hate Offenders, Randy Blazak (ed.), Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.

Blazak, Randy. 2009. “Towards a Definition of Hate Groups,” in Understanding Hate Crime, Brian Levin (ed.), Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.

Blazak, Randy. 2008. “Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America,” in Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment, Michael Flynn and David C. Brotherton (Editors), New York: Columbia University Press.

Wooden, Wayne S. and Randy Blazak. 2001. Renegade Kids, Suburban Outlaws (2nd Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

Blazak, Randy. 2004. “ `Getting it': Women and Male Desistance from Hate Groups,” in Home-grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism, ed. Abby L. Ferber. London: Routledge.

Blazak, Randy. 2002. “Strain as a Red Flag for Skinhead Recruiters,” in General Strain Theory: Essential Readings, ed. Robert Agnew and Paul Mazerolle. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Blazak, Randy. 2001. "White Boys to Terrorist Men: Target Recruitment of Nazi Skinheads" in American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 44 No. 6: 982-100 (February 2001).

Blazak, Randy. 1998. "Hate in the Suburbs: The Rise of the Skinhead Subculture" in The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology. Edited by Lisa McIntyre, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing. 

Blazak, Randy. 1998. "Militia hearts of darkness are still beating," The Oregonian, Feb. 22, pp. C1-C2.

Blazak, Randy. 1997. "Gangsta gets a bad rap," The Oregonian, Sept. 28. pp. C1-C2.

Blazak, Randy. 1991. “The Rise and Fall of Bohemian Enclaves” in Cities In The World System. Edited by Resat Kesaba, University Of Washington Press.