OVERVIEW
Since 1988, the American Terrorism Study (ATS) has collected, coded, and analyzed terrorism-related federal court cases in the United States. The study is housed in the Terrorism Research Center (TRC) and has expanded over the last three decades to include legal and geospatial variables.
Court cases included in the American Terrorism Study must be the result of an FBI terrorism investigation and come from a specific list of cases from the FBI, meet the FBI’s definition of terrorism and involve a perpetrator federally indicted in the United States, or the individual must appear on an official federal government list of terrorism cases. These cases are collected using the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system.
ATS variables include but are not limited to: informant usage in terrorism investigations, legal strategies and outcomes, attendant criminal behavior, geospatial and temporal patterns of the planning process, target characteristics, and group dynamics. Additional variables are coded for each case when funding is available. For data inquiries, please Contact Us directly.
ASSOCIATED ITEMS
Research Brief: Gender and Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism in the United States
Longevity Dataset Posted to ICPSR
Longevity Dataset Posted to ICPSR August 29, 2019 Data from the TRC's Longevity Project has been uploaded to the University of Michigan's ICPSR, a social science data repository. Access the Data
Suspicious Pre-Operational Activities and Law Enforcement Interdiction of Terrorist Plots
Article: Suspicious Pre-Operational Activities and Law Enforcement Interdiction of Terrorist Plots February 11, 2019 A new study using American Terrorism Study data examining suspicious activities preceding terrorist incidents was published in Policing: An...