Heath Landress

PUBLICATION AND SCHOLARLY WORK

Landress, Heath Nicholas, "Child Protective Services Workers' Decision Making and Risk Management" (2024). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 16143. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/16143 Dissertation (ScholarWorks)

Landress, Heath, "Identifying Symbolic Modeling of Grooming Precursors in Social Media" (2026). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 20441.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/20441

Landress, H. N. (under review). Nihilistic Violence Aesthetics in Public Online Communication: A Theoretical Framework for Interpreting Hybridized Violent Signaling. Manuscript under review (Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression)

Landress, H. N. (under review). Surfacing and Ranking the Forces That Shape Frontline Practice: A Step-by-Step Force Field Analysis Within a Quasi-Delphi Design for Assessing Risk Assessment and Decision-Making Among Child Protective Services Workers. Manuscript under review (Journal of Public Child Welfare)

Using Force Field Analysis to Strengthen Child Welfare Risk Assessment: A Practice Framework for Supervisors and Administrators Manuscript under review (CWLA)

Landress, H. N. (2026). The SAFE Milieu Framework: A Conceptual Architecture for Trauma-Informed Administration in Specialized Residential Care Manuscript under review (Developmental Child Welfare)

Landress, H. N. (2026). The Youth Online Exploitation–Extremism Interface: A Conceptual Framework for Anti-Trafficking Identification and Digital Child Protection Manuscript under review (Journal of Human Trafficking) (Brief Report)

Landress, H. N. (2026). Analytically Separable, Empirically Entangled: A Structural Validation of the Youth Online Exploitation–Extremism Interface Framework Using the PERIL Nihilistic Violent Extremism Tracker Manuscript under review (Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology) 

Landress, H. N. (2026). Nihilistic Violence Aesthetics in Public Online Communications Manuscript under review (Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences) (Comprehensive Literature Review)

Landress, H. N. (2026). Identifying Symbolic Modeling of Grooming Precursors in Social Media Manuscript under review (Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences)

Non-Peer Reviewed Work/ Working Papers/ Pre-Prints:

White Papers

H. N., L. (2026). Nihilistic Violence Aesthetics in Public Online Communication: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Hybridized Violent Signaling A Research-Informed White Paper for Researchers, Practitioners, and Policy Audiences. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20185872

Landress, H. N. (2026). White Paper: The Youth Online Exploitation–Extremism Interface A Conceptual Framework for Anti-Trafficking Identification and Digital Child Protection (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20421646

Landress, H. N. (2026). Identifying Symbolic Modeling of Grooming Precursors in Social Media (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21513869 

Pre-Prints

Landress, H. N. (2026). The Youth Online Exploitation–Extremism Interface: A Conceptual Framework for Anti-Trafficking Identification and Digital Child Protection (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20601017

Landress, Heath, Testing the Aesthetic-to-Risk Framework: A Protocol for Qualitative Multimedia Content Analysis of Nihilistic Violence Aesthetics in Public Reddit Posts (May 13, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6766698 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6766698

Landress, H. N. (2026). The SAFE Milieu Framework: A Conceptual Architecture for Trauma-Informed Administration in Specialized Residential Care (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20399784

Landress, H. N. (2026). Documenting Youth-Facing Online Harm in Nihilistic Violent Extremism: A Secondary Qualitative Document Analysis of Public Incident Records. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6819878 

Landress, H. N. (2026). Surfacing and Ranking the Forces That Shape Frontline Practice: A Step-by-Step Force Field Analysis Within a Quasi-Delphi Design for Assessing Risk Assessment and Decision-Making Among Child Protective Services Workers (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20453776

Landress, H. N. (2026). The Practitioner-Sourced Force Field (PSFF) Framework: A Conceptual Model of Dual-Valence Forces in Child Welfare Decision-Making (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20453755

Landress, H. N. (2026). Analytically Separable, Empirically Entangled: A Structural Validation of the Youth Online Exploitation–Extremism Interface Framework Using the PERIL Nihilistic Violent Extremism Tracker. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20618014

Landress, H. N. (2026). Identifying symbolic modeling of grooming precursors in social media [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ve9q6_v1

Article Contributions

Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

Between Meme Culture and Warning Behaviour: Interpreting Nihilistic Violence Aesthetics in Online Extremist-Adjacent Spaces

https://gnet-research.org/2026/07/13/between-meme-culture-and-warning-b…