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A brand new website!

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Hello world! Welcome to our brand new site! As we transition away from our prior institutional host, we felt it was important to host and manage our own website, and here it is! There are still some broken links and other cosmetic fixes, but bear with us as we complete this change and get ready […]

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A Focus on Organization and Uniformity

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. A Focus on Organization and Uniformity Morgan Demboski As the project grows and matures, the processes and content are changing, which creates non-uniformity in the dataset between our past cases and the cases we are adding and coding currently. In our […]

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The Problems of Legitimacy in Discussing Terrorism

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. The Problems of Legitimacy in Discussing Terrorism Zion Miller Working on the Prosecution Project has raised more questions for me than answers. One of the largest has been “what/who is a terrorist?” This is an especially thorny question for me because […]

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The Qualifications of a Combat Veteran

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. The Qualifications of a Combat Veteran Stephanie Sorich While coding our most previous group of cases, my coding partner, Zion, and I got into a discussion about the way to code for veteran status and combat veteran for this particular group. […]

Student entries

New To Terrorist Studies

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. New To Terrorist Studies Justeen Jackson As I sat at my desk, the computer open, coffee in-hand, and I closed my eyes for a deep breath. Being a newbie, I was assigned to begin my work with The Prosecution Project as […]

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A New Procedure For Updating Pending Cases

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This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. A New Procedure For Updating Pending Cases Sara Godfrey Our tPP team prides itself on efficiency and productivity. Therefore, when I found out there was an odd number of students participating in our class-time block I knew I had to be […]