Life in Prison over Childhood Beliefs: Psychology behind the Ritchie case Megan Roques (@meganroques) When coding cases, we examine multiple cases with various motivations in order to determine if they fit the inclusion criteria. Lately, most of the cases that I have found have been the result of scraping documents and databases. Therefore, coding these […]
New York Bail Reform and Its Implications on a tPP Case Caitlin Marsengill New York’s well intended cash bail reform policy has created unintended consequences and sparked controversy in policymakers, law enforcement, and the public in one fell swoop. On January 1, 2020, New York’s new bail reform policy went into effect. They are following […]
The Changing Nature of Assault & Hate Crimes Nitya Sunil Last Spring semester, while working on coding cases, I came across a case with characteristics that would determine prosecution for many future cases. The State of Texas v. John Rayne Rivello determines whether a tweet, or any message-sending medium utilized on the Internet, can be […]
The Roaring Twenty-Twenties: White Nationalism Rising and the Coronavirus Zion Miller While the Prosecution Project’s objectives primarily relate to how sociopolitical crimes are prosecuted, the Project also studies the trends of how and who commits sociopolitical crime change over time. Examples of past trends was a large right-wing anti-government movement during the 1990s, a massive […]
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Criminal Justice System and tPP Morgan Demboski No one can deny that we are in an unprecedented – albeit historic – time for both the U.S. and the world. Every person and entity is trying to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the best way possible, and everyone is […]
Further Considerations on COVID-19 and Its Influence on tPP Stephanie Sorich In March of 2020, classes at our former university home of the Project, were put on a “temporary” hold in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and eventually moved online for the remainder of the year. While not all members of tPP participate through […]
Laptop Lectures Madison Weaver While we have all been suspended from face-to-face instruction as of March 10th, 2020, fortunately, our tPP team is accustomed to working in a decentralized manner and using technology to its fullest. We have team members that work day-by-day in the classroom setting while others contribute from hundreds of miles away. […]
COVID-19’s Effects on Crime Reporting and Case Management Catie Barry With millions of people out of work due to government-mandated stay-at-home orders, it leaves the streets seemingly much more riddled with crime. With websites such as Time, Forbes and PBS reporting a significant decrease in crime due to the pandemic, it leaves the public believing […]
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 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 […]