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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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. 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. 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. 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 […]

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 […]