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Knowledge and death penalty opinion: A panel study
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This study addressed the stability of informed death penalty opinions (and reasons for opinions) by examining them approximately two and three years after subjects completed a month-long college class on the death penalty.About:
This article is published in Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 1993-01-01. It has received 56 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control.read more
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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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Can information change public opinion? Another test of the Marshall hypotheses
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of change in knowledge levels with changes in death penalty attitudes and beliefs were examined for a more complete test of the Marshall hypotheses, and the results provided mixed support for these three hypotheses.
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Not everyone strongly supports the death penalty: Assessing weakly-held attitudes about capital punishment
TL;DR: This paper analyzed responses to two national surveys in order to explore the variables that differentiate respondents with strongly-held and weakly-held views on the death penalty, and a theoretical account is offered to explain why some people have weakly held views on this critical social issue.
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More than ten years after: The long-term stability of informed death penalty opinions
Robert M. Bohm,Brenda Vogel +1 more
TL;DR: Stability of informed death penalty opinions more than ten years after students participated in a semester long death penalty class was examined, and race was a significant factor in every opinion measure, as well as in nine of the eleven reasons for death penalty support or opposition.
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The age of death: Appraising public opinion of juvenile capital punishment
Brenda Vogel,Ronald E. Vogel +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the determinants of death penalty opinion, identified the minimum age at which respondents were willing to allow a juvenile to be put to death and examined the willingness of respondents to support an alternative sentence of life without the possibility of parole (LWOP).
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Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences
TL;DR: This is the revision of the classic text in the field, adding two new chapters and thoroughly updating all others as discussed by the authors, and the original structure is retained, and the book continues to serve as a combined text/reference.
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Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, subjects supporting and opposing capital punishment were exposed to two purported studies, one seemingly confirming and one seemingly disconfirming their existing beliefs about the deterrent efficacy of the death penalty.
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Support for the death penalty: Instrumental response to crime, or symbolic attitude?
Tom R. Tyler,Renee Weber +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that both instrumental and symbolic concerns influenced public support for capital punishment, while the influence of instrumental crime-related concerns was small, suggesting that death penalty support is one aspect of general political-social ideology, rather than a response to crimerelated concerns or experiences.
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Public Opinion and Capital Punishment: A Close Examination of the Views of Abolitionists and Retentionists:
Phoebe C. Ellsworth,Lee Ross +1 more
TL;DR: A survey designed to examine the attitudinal and informational bases of people's opinions about the death penalty was administered to 500 Northern California residents (response rate = 96 percent) as mentioned in this paper.
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