June 3, 2003

Suspected Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph will be tried in Birmingham, Alabama, for a 1998 women’s clinic bombing. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) criminologist Brent Smith, Ph.D., is available to discuss the prosecutorial strategies used by the federal government in terrorism cases.

Brent Smith, Ph.D., is author of the 1994 book, Terrorism in America: Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams, which examines the prosecutorial strategies used in federal terrorism trials.

In the 1980s, Smith began creating a database that contained information about hundreds of federally indicted terrorists under the FBI’s Counterterrorism Program. His work was the basis for his book. In 2001, Smith was awarded a $1 million grant from the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism to assist in the development of a national terrorism database. Smith is chairman of the UAB Department of Justice Sciences.