Prosecuting Political Violence: Collaborative Research and Method - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367482223 ISBN 13: 9780367482220

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This volume unpacks the multidimensional realities of political violence, and how these crimes are dealt with throughout the US judicial system, using a mixed methods approach.

The work seeks to challenge the often-noted problems with mainstream terrorism research, namely an overreliance on secondary sources, a scarcity of data-driven analyses, and a tendency for authors not to work collaboratively. This volume inverts these challenges, situating itself within primary-source materials, empirically studied through collaborative, inter-generational (statistical) analysis. Through a focused exploration of how these crimes are influenced by gender, ethnicity, ideology, tactical choice, geography, and citizenship, the chapters offered here represent scholarship from a pool of more than sixty authors. Utilizing a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, including regression and other forms of statistical analysis, Grounded Theory, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis, the researchers in this book explore not only the subject of political violence and the law but also the craft of research. In bringing together these emerging voices, this volume seeks to challenge expertism, while privileging the empirical.

This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, criminology, and US politics.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Loadenthal is the founder and Executive Director of the Prosecution Project, and the Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Georgetown University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367482223
• ISBN 13: 9780367482220
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Loadenthal Michael