This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Taking a step back from coding further cases for the dataset, tPP’s researchers wanted to take the time to answer some of the questions which had arisen around the trends we identified over months researching and coding prosecutions of political crimes. For […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Much of how the West understands the term “terrorism” today is shaped by the events that transpired after 9/11. The Patriot Act was enacted six weeks after the fall of the twin towers, and with it the prerogative of law enforcement officials […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. In my last blog post, I discussed how cases are deemed fit for inclusion in the tPP database. That post ended with a question about when and why crimes without a clear political motive are labeled as terrorism by the government. As […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. In my previous blog post, I explained the occurrence of pleas and why defendants might choose to plead guilty, including financial, time, or other risk factors. This blog post will expand upon that specifying in the category of guilty plea bargains. I […]
Nov 15, 2018 As hate crimes rise across the U.S., a Miami team researches political motivations and prosecution by Shavon Anderson, university news and communications Two weeks after a mass shooting in Pittsburgh, what’s being called the largest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirms bias-motivated attacks are on the rise. […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Welcoming a hiatus of coding new cases for the project, the tPP team has embarked on personal analyses of a tentatively ‘finalized’/partial dataset. Over the past few weeks, team members began individual quantitative and qualitative studies, with the intention of answering distinct […]
Former team members Other students who have briefly assisted tPP include: Megan Boyce, Reagan Brown, Allyson Croy, Rachel Faraci, Megan Frankland, Monica Cely Gomez, JJ Hartwell, Hayley Huge, Will Kendall, Leah Kovach, Megan Kelley, Jesus Lucero, Maggie McCutcheon, Marshal O’Brien, Stone Oliver, Preet Patel, Nicolas Sabet, Maia Sepiashvili, Eric Waddell, Ryan Wilms, […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. “We are under attack,” yelled Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a U.S. Army man who was deployed to Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait back in 2003 (“Background: Sgt. Hasan Akbar” n.d.). After yelling these words, Akbar threw stolen grenades into the campsite before taking […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. The Prosecution Project (tPP) analyzes a wide variety of variables to uncover and assess patterns in the prosecution and punishment of domestic terrorism in the United States, and my research has led me to pay interest to one variable in particular: […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. At the start of my work in the Prosecution Project (tPP), I had little knowledge about most things involving court cases and sentencing. Many questions have occurred to me throughout my research, but a recurring one involves pleas. What is a plea, […]