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Anina is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the , AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Bern. Her research lies at the intersection of sociology, criminology, and political science.

Anina's work combines computational social science tools with standard statistical analysis to study social norms and networks, inequalities and resilience. Her current projects examine the topics and sentiments associated with digital media discourse on contentious social issues and its impact on public opinion, the social networks and dynamics that have led to the emergence and evolution of extremist movements in contemporary societies, and the impact of generative AI on the resilience of democracies.

She is a former fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School and was a fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Cyber Project (2020-2022), a postdoctoral fellow with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program (2018-2020), and a member of the Belfer’s team that produced the National Cyber Power Index 2020 (downloaded more than 4,500 times on Harvard Dataverse). Anina previously held positions as a postdoctoral associate at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and as a graduate researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign Criminal Law and Criminology in Germany (2013-2018). She is a recipient of grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Bern, and the Fondazione Leonardo, among others. She is also a board member of the and serves as one of the 200 elected members of the . Anina is affiliated with the  Institute of Sociological Research at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, the at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Lausanne, and the at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Zurich.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Schwarzenbach, A. (forthcoming). Targets of Police Attention. Young People, Discrimination and Stop-and-Search in Germany and France. European Sociological Review.

Schwarzenbach, A., and Jensen, M (2024). Extremists of a feather flock together? Community structures, transitivity, and patterns of homophily in the US Islamist co-offending network. PLoS ONE 19(6): e0298273.

LaFree, G., Schwarzenbach, A. (2021): Micro and Macro-Level Risk Factors for Extremism and Terrorism. Toward a Criminology of Extremist Violence. Journal of Criminology and Penal Reform, 104, no. 3: 184-202.

Schwarzenbach, A., Tankebe, J., and Oberwittler, D. (2020): In Their Own Hands: Young People and Self-Justice Retaliation in Germany. Crime & Delinquency.

Oberwittler, D., and Schwarzenbach, A. (2015): Police and Adolescents in Multi-Ethnic Societies. Findings of a Comparative Survey of Adolescents in German and French Cities. In: SIAK-Journal – Journal for Police Science and Practice, International Edition, Vol. 5, 4-15.

Peer-reviewed Monograph

Schwarzenbach, A. (2020): Youth-Police Relations in Multi-Ethnic Cities. A Study of Police Contacts and Attitudes toward Police in Germany and France. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

Schwarzenbach, A. (2023) Extremism, Violence, and the Media Discourse. In: Brewster, C., and Wieboldt, D. (Eds.). Journalism and Democracy. The Clough Center for The Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College., pp. 43-47.

Schwarzenbach, A. (2019): Counter-radicalisation strategies: An analysis of German and French approaches and implementations. In: Akhgar, B.,Wells, D., and Blanco, J. M. (eds.). Investigating Radicalization Trends: Case Studies in Europe and Asia. Springer Nature, pp.101-122.

Schwarzenbach, A. (2018): Fighting the “Threat from Within”: France and its Counter-Radicalization Strategy. In: Vidino, L (ed.). Deradicalization in the Mediterranean. Comparing Challenges and Approaches. Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale (ISPI). Milano: LediPublishing.

Roché, S., Schwarzenbach, A., Oberwittler, D., and De Maillard, J. (2017): Adolescents’ Divergent Ethnic and Religious Identities and Trust in the Police. Combining Micro- and Macro-Level Determinants in a Comparative Analysis in France and Germany. In: Oberwittler, D. and Roché, S. (ed.): Police-Citizen Relations: A Comparative Investigation of Sources and Impediments of Legitimacy Around the World. London: Routledge, pp. 175-195.

Schwarzenbach, A. (2017): Wie stehen Jugendliche in Deutschland zur Polizei? Ergebnisse aus dem Forschungsprojekt POLIS. In: Bartsch, T., Brandenstein, M., Grundies, V., Hermann, D., Puschke, J., and Rau, M. (ed.): Sammelband des 50. Kolloquium der Südwestdeutschen und Schweizerischen Kriminologischen Institute. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Manuscripts under Revision

Schwarzenbach, A. Distributive Justice, Resource Inequality, and Domestic Terrorist Attacks.

Schwarzenbach, A., and Zöbeli, L. The Construction of Social Threat. Integrating Topic Modeling and Word Embedding to analyze 30 years of Media Coverage on Extremism.

Working Papers

Schwarzenbach, A. Morality and Artificial Intelligence.

Schwarzenbach, A., and Baier, D. Political Legitimacy and Political Extremism.

Hayes, N., and Schwarzenbach, A. Generative AI and Democracy. Ethical and Societal Considerations on GPTs Coverage of Contentious Social Issues.

Schwarzenbach, A. Exploring Social Resilience through Agent-Based Modeling: Insights from the TwinLife Dataset.

Developed Databases

Schwarzenbach, A., Voo, J., Hemani, I., Jones, S., DeSombre, W., and Cassidy, D. (2020). Harvard Belfer National Cyber Power Index 2020, Harvard Dataverse, V3.