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Alexis M. Durham
Researcher at University of Florida
Publications - 13
Citations - 199
Alexis M. Durham is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Punishment & Seriousness. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 13 publications receiving 194 citations.
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Public support for the death penalty: Beyond gallup
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that as many as 80 percent of citizens support the death penalty for offenders convicted of murder, while only 5 percent opposed it. But these surveys, however, typically pose abstract questions about gen...
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Origins of interest in the privatization of punishment: the nineteenth and twentieth century american experience
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the origins of interest in privatization in America during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and suggests that scrutiny of the historical record may provide insights that will be useful in the development of policy that can successfully anticipate and avoid hazards to the success of correctional privatization.
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The use of factorial survey design in assessments of public judgments of appropriate punishment for crime
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Crime seriousness and punitive severity: An assessment of social attitudes
TL;DR: This article focused on the difficulty of identifying a basis for the development of a scale of proportionality between crime and punishment, and the results of a survey of attitudes regarding appropriate punishment for crime are discussed.
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Judgements of appropriate punishment: The effects of question type
TL;DR: This paper assess the effects of open-ended versus closed-ended question formats on judgments of the kind and amount of punishment appropriate for various kinds of offenses and find that question type may indeed have an effect on the character of the punishment identified as appropriate by respondents.