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                            Funding & Awards
 NIJ FY06 ORE Terrorism
Award Information
Awardee
              Board of Trustees, University of Arkansas
Award #
              2006-IJ-CX-0026
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Fayetteville, AR
Congressional District
              3
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2006
Total funding (to date)
              $292,893
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY06 ORE Terrorism
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2006, $292,893)
The goal of the research is to provide state and federal prosecutors with information that can assist in the efficient prosecution of terrorism cases.  To accomplish this, project personnel will:
'	Assess the relationship between prosecutorial and defense strategies and case outcomes in terrorism trials;
'	Assess whether changes in terrorism tactics have affected how terrorist defendants behave at trial;
'	Develop a greater understanding of the factors affecting terrorists' decisions to plead guilty or go to trial;
'	Provide an analysis of pre-and post-9/11 federal terrorism cases; and
'	Add prosecutorial and defense strategies variable to the American Terrorism Study (ATS) database on terrorism cases from 1980 to 2004.
Data for this project will come from several sources: 1. 'The American Terrorism Study,' which includes a statistical database of all federal indictments resulting from official FBI terrorism investigations for the period 1980-2004; 2. U.S. Sentencing Commission data on all convicted terrorists in the ATS dataset from 1988-1999 and supplemented with a matched sample of non-terrorist for the same period; 3. federal court case records (indictments, dockets, etc,); and 4. information from other open sources, such as newspaper accounts of the trials.  The ATS database currently has information on over 700 terrorists indicted for 8,100 violations of federal criminal law from 1980-2004.
Analysis of issues relating to the plea bargaining process will involve the use of simultaneous structural equation and logistic regression modeling, while analysis of defense and prosecutorial strategies will involve the use of descriptive as well as multivariate techniques such as multiple regression.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Time Penalty: Examining the Relationship Between Time to Conviction and Trial vs. Plea Disparities in Sentencing
                  An Assessment of Defense and Prosecutorial Strategies in Terrorism Trials: Implications for State and Federal Prosecutors




  
Grant-Funded Datasets
        
                      http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26241

  
Date Created: September 12, 2006
    
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