{"id":14883,"date":"2023-09-27T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpower.maryland.edu\/?p=14883"},"modified":"2023-09-27T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:08:21","slug":"mpower-seed-grant-fuels-new-760k-research-award-to-study-domestic-terrorism-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpower.maryland.edu\/mpower-seed-grant-fuels-new-760k-research-award-to-study-domestic-terrorism-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"MPower Seed Grant Fuels New $762K Research Award to Study Domestic Terrorism Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By: Ashley DeMaio | September 27, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Domestic terrorism is on the rise and so is the call for new legislation to combat it. But are new laws or stiffer penalties the answer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In February 2022, the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (MPower<\/em>) awarded a $64,133 seed grant to the collaborative team of Michael Vesely, JD<\/strong><\/a>, and Michael Jensen, PhD<\/strong><\/a>, who hoped to answer that question and address the growing gaps in research on the judicial outcomes of international and domestic terrorism cases through a project entitled, \u201cTackling Terror in the Homeland.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The work of Vesely, academic program director and senior law and policy analyst at the Center for Health and Homeland Security (CHHS)<\/strong><\/a> at the University of Maryland, Baltimore<\/strong><\/a>, and co-investigator Jensen, a senior researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)<\/strong><\/a> at the University of Maryland, College Park<\/strong><\/a>, yielded previously nonexistent empirical data on significant sentencing disparities in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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