This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Public Access to Data Zion Miller Two topics are in vogue now more than ever: terrorism and being data-driven. The Prosecution Project combines these two in a previously unseen way, creating a public database about illegal political violence prosecuted within the United […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. A Woman’s Place: Not in the Kitchen, but in Political Extremism? Sarah Carrier As the end of the Fall 2019 semester rolled around, I found myself analyzing the data I had helped collect over the past few months. I had only truly […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. All People are Equal, but Some People are More Equal than Others Zion Miller “Equal justice under law” is engraved into the front of the United States Supreme Court building. It’s a paraphrase of the Supreme Court ruling in Caldwell v. Texas […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Not All Who are Charged are Tried : The “Charged but Not Tried” Variable Morgan Demboski A large goal of our project is to analyze how political violence is prosecuted in the U.S. and to eventually be able to determine how certain […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Coding Women in Political Violence Katherine Coate This is my first semester coding for the Prosecution Project and I have learned a lot over the semester and my expectations of what the project would be like have changed a lot also. Something […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. How We Decided to Code for U.S. Nationals Who Are Not U.S. Citizens Selena Mungur While researching Tusitala Toese after he was indicted for multiple levels of assault during a political rally where he associated himself with Proud Boys, we found that […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. COVID-19 Terrorist Threats Maddie Weaver “A man accused of licking deodorants in a Missouri Walmart after asking ‘Who’s afraid of the coronavirus?’ was charged with making a terrorist threat.” — “A Man Coughed on a Wegmans Employee. Now He’s Charged with […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Benefits of “Face-to-face Instruction” Katherine Coate On March 10th, 2020 Miami University suspended all face-to-face instruction in favor of remote instruction due to Coronavirus and three days later decided to extend this through the rest of the spring semester and send […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Headlines and Public Perception of Hate Crimes Makenzie Mercer In a December 2019 class activity, students with the Prosecution Project were responsible for rummaging through our source files to ensure that the content was relevant, the files were accurately labeled to coincide […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Evolving Coders Bridget Dickens tPP is constantly evolving. Paging through the codebook and manual today, readers will see new additions that were not there two months ago. The final pages of the codebook log the various alterations made every few weeks. Given […]