This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. ‘USEB98’: The Process of Completing a Twenty-Year-Old Case Sara Godfrey On August 7th, 1998, trucks armed with explosives simultaneously detonated outside U.S. embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, bringing public attention for many to al-Qaeda for the first time. […]

This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Coding: The efficiency of Group Cases Courtney Faber The Project’s dataset gives a distinction between cases where there are multiple offenders and those cases where the crime is perpetrated by a single person. The variable co-offenders in our dataset is denoted with […]

This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. The Intricacy of Ideology Emma Lovejoy Through the focus which The Prosecution Project (tPP) gives to the particular ideologies of subjects, our team members have the opportunity to observe a wide array of philosophies. In many cases, personal definitions and identities […]

This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. “Othered” Katherine Coate Fall 2019 was my first semester coding for the Prosecution Project. Throughout that time, something I have been interested in  is coding the ‘Other’ status variable. I had heard the term othering before and knew it had a negative […]

This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Coding Hate Crimes Katherine Coate In October of 2019 the variable “Hate Crimes” was added to the process of coding cases and the codebook. The values for this variable are simply “yes” or “no”, but understanding exactly what a hate crime is […]