Punishing Terrorism: Examining the Multiple Stages of Federal Punishment Across Political Contexts

Investigator:

Brian Johnson

Statistical analysis of for 574 federal indictments across 85 different terrorist groups in 52 different federal districts, included in the American Terrorism Study, to be integrated with data on prior offenses and offense severity from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, on liberalism scores for relevant federal districts, and on the type of terrorist group with which a defendant was associated. These added data will allow for more robust analyses of sentencing trends of U.S. terrorist offenders than has previously been conducted.

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