Francis T. Cullen

TL;DR: This paper found that support for three-strikes laws is high when citizens are asked broad single-item questions, but diminishes greatly when presented with specific situations covered under the law, and that the public appears willing to make exceptions to the law.

TL;DR: The authors examined whether race has a direct effect on support for capital punishment and test whether the influence of race varies across class, being a native southerner, confidence in government officials, political orientation, and religious affiliation.

TL;DR: The authors found that those who have a rigid and moralistic approach to religion and who imagine God as a dispassionate, powerful figure who dispenses justice are more likely to harbor punitive sentiments toward offenders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test two rival theories: low self-control and differential association and social learning and their competing accounts of why bad parenting matters, finding that ineffective parenting is likely to produce low self control and aggressive attitudes through not only direct control (e.g., monitoring and punishment) but also through modeling.

TL;DR: Using a sample of 2,437 middle-school students from a metropolitan Virginia area, the authors explored the impact of school bullying on students' academic performance and reported that bullying has emerged as a salient problem in the school environment.