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Who gets called a terrorist?

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. The tPP database contains a lot of variety. There are the types of cases you would expect: bombings, shootings, attempts to join ISIS. But there are also some cases that would not necessarily spring to mind when you hear the word “terrorism”: […]

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Exploring Geographical Aspects of the tPP Dataset

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Another dimension to researching our data involves looking at some of the geographical aspects of our data.  This is mainly through looking at the location of attacks within our dataset.  Although our data explores terrorism prosecutions within the United States, some of […]

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Data Validity Issues

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. The Prosecution Project is a multi-year research initiative that is run by Dr. Michael Loadenthal, of Miami University’s department of sociology, and a cohort of students. Our team has built a “code book” to help us turn the prose of court documents […]

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Group Affiliation and Ideologies Through Heat Maps

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. When tPP was still in its coding stage, I enjoyed perusing through documents to find the codable variables within our dataset. I was consistently interested in where defendants fell in terms of ideology and group affiliation. I would often notice similarities between […]

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Reexamining the Codebook

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. In class the past few weeks, we have decided to reassess and rework our team’s Codebook. Up until now, the Codebook has been a relatively straightforward manual that we all follow while coding each case. Personally, my partner and I leave the […]

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A Codebook 2.0?

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team.  As the semester is winding down, here is an update on the current status and goals of tPP! Over the past two months, everyone has worked to construct mini-analyses papers on a chosen topic surrounding our database. Some members worked in pairs […]

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Excluded Cases and Why They Remain Important

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. The tPP data set[1] has an extensive process of selecting cases that fit the criteria for the database.  This process is called the decision tree and has been described in other blog posts.  While the data set currently has almost 1,202 coded […]