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General and specific measures of public attitudes toward sentencing
Edward Zamble,Kerry L. Kalm +1 more
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This article is published in Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science.The article was published on 1990-07-01. It has received 66 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economic Justice & Adjudication.read more
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Three strikes and you are out, but why? The psychology of public support for punishing rule breakers.
Tom R. Tyler,Robert J. Boeckmann +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined why the public supports the punishment of rule breakers and found that the source of people's concerns lies primarily in their evaluations of social conditions, including the decline in morality and discipline within the family and increases in the diversity of society.
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Penal Populism and Public Opinion: Lessons from Five Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors map public attitudes towards crime and punishment across countries and explore the congruence between public views and actual policies, concluding that despite the differences among jurisdictions, startling commonalities exist among the five countries-the U.K., USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand surveyed here.
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A TASTE FOR PUNISHMENT: Black and White Americans' Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs
Lawrence D. Bobo,Devon Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: This article used a series of survey-based experiments and large, nationally representative samples of white and African American respondents to study the influence of racial prejudice on public opinion on criminal justice policy.
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Public Support for Correctional Treatment: The Continuing Appeal of the Rehabilitative Ideal:
TL;DR: The authors found that the public still believes that rehabilitation should be an integral part of correctional policy, and support for a treatment approach is fairly consistent across demographic groups and across different types of questions used to tap citizens' views.
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Is a conservative just a liberal who has been mugged?: Exploring the origins of punitive views
Anna King,Shadd Maruna +1 more
TL;DR: As in the adage that "a conservative is just a liberal who has been mugged", many presume that punitive public attitudes are derived from the direct experience of crime and victimization.
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Attitudes vs. Actions
TL;DR: The attitudinal questionnaire as mentioned in this paper has been used to measure social attitudes of non-Armenian males towards Armenian females in the context of street cars and women in the vicinity of cars.
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Social psychology, social attitudes, and attitudes toward sentencing.
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