Courts in the Crosshairs: Understanding the Rise in and Ramifications of Threats and Violence Directed at the U.S. Judiciar

• In Event: Violence and Courts

Brief Overview

We aim to understand public threats to the U.S. judiciary in the 21st century. We collect institutional-level data on judicial threats and conduct an original survey experiment that offers new insights on the effects of exposure to threats.

Authors

• Justin Wedeking, University of Kentucky

• Michael Zilis, University of Kentucky