The Process and Difficulties of Coding the Twenty-Year Old 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings 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. The explosions killed 224 people and injured […]
Freedom of Information Act or Freedom to Pay for Information Act? Morgan Demboski When researching cases for the project, court documents are the jackpot of source files. I always feel a tiny bit of excitement when I am able to find a free indictment or plea document online. However, I think my excitement stems from […]
Far-Right Extremist Use of Bitcoin and Dark Web Platforms: The Dark Network Links of tPP Cases Meg Drown There has been a mass movement by far-right extremists to dark web social media platforms and an increased use of cryptocurrencies as a means to crowdsource. This move has largely been due to the initiatives of big […]
Gender Disparities in Crimes of Political Violence: Revealing tPP’s Strengths and Limitations Kayla Groneck 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 of researching and coding prosecutions of political […]