TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose In this chapter, we provide a brief historical framework of the events and policy changes that impacted the prosecution of terrorism over the past 50 years with emphasis placed on the changes that resulted from the 9/11 attacks.Methodology/approach We provide a review of relevant literature and complete the chapter by providing new data (2015) on case outcomes derived from the American Terrorism Study, a database housed in the Terrorism Research Center in Fulbright College, at the University of Arkansas.Findings Investigative and prosecutorial authority in U.S. terrorism cases has experienced ebbs and flows that correspond with terrorism attacks as well as missteps by the FBI, and each has impacted the success of prosecution efforts. Despite dramatic changes, the number of cases prosecuted after 9/11 is unprecedented, and conviction rates continue to climb.Originality/value This chapter provides the reader with a synopsis of the policy changes that have occurred in federal terrorism investigations and trials from the late 1960s upto the present. Based on that context, we provide an explanation of how those policy changes have impacted terrorism prosecutions.
VL  - 20
SN  - 978-1-78560-191-0, 978-1-78560-190-3/1521-6136
DO  - 10.1108/S1521-613620150000020013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-613620150000020013
AU  - Shields Christopher A.
AU  - Smith Brent L.
AU  - Damphousse Kelly R.
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - Prosecuting Terrorism: Challenges in the Post-9/11 World
T2  - Terrorism and Counterterrorism Today
T3  - Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 173
EP  - 195
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -