Examining the Outcome of Investigations and Prosecutions of Extremism in the United States

Rachel Yon and Daniel Milton

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2024, vol. 47, issue 6, 622-644

Abstract: While the criminology literature indicates that investigative and judicial outcomes can be influenced by several factors, a smaller number of scholars have examined how similar factors operate in terrorism investigations and prosecutions. We use the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) and American Terror Study (ATS) datasets to examine the factors that influence outcomes in such cases from 1947 to 2017. We find that the ideological affiliation, leadership activity, and the commission of an act of violence increase the severity of the legal outcome, while other factors such as gender, age, race, and biographic availability have less consistent impact.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1987659

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