This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Equally important to the research the Prosecution Project (tPP) yields is the process by which our researchers input cases to the database to ensure the reliability and validity of tPP’s findings. Student members of tPP code for a total of 40 variables […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. On September 18, 2018, the State Department released its new ceiling of 30,000 refugee admissions for the upcoming fiscal year (Malley & Pomper, 2018). This is the lowest level in the history of the 40-year old refugee resettlement agency, with the average […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Last week we had another busy meeting in order to get all of our ducks in a row before we delve into analysis. We addressed some issues with coding, discussed ways to publicize our efforts, and talked about things that we as […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. One of the most difficult topics as far as coding that has come up during the course of our project is one that is fundamental to the question we are attempting to answer: What does it mean for a person to be “othered”? […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Future posts will focus on gender, religion, race and ethnicity, the role played by federal informants in sentencing, denaturalization as a response to terrorism, deciphering the distinction between hate crimes and other forms of bias-motivated violence, and a host of other topics. Stay […]
Beginning today, tPP will feature weekly blog posts from our student research team on a variety of topics. Stay tuned! Greetings from tPP! Hello, and welcome to the first blog update of the semester. We’ve only met once thus far as a class; we have one three-hour class every Thursday afternoon as well as an […]