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Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform
How can public opinion research help achieve badly needed criminal justice reforms? Unfortunately, public opinion has frequently been used in ways...
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Reform we can agree on: public opinion on prosecutorial liability
ObjectivesThe current study explores public opinion about civil liability for official misconduct by prosecutors by surveying a nationally...
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Public Opinion and Parole Board Decision-Making
In this chapter, we turn to the questions that motivated our study and underpin this book: what do parole boards make of public opinion on parole and...
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False positives vs. false negatives: public opinion on the cost ratio in criminal justice risk assessment
ObjectivesWe examine public attitudes towards false positives and false negatives in criminal justice risk assessment and how people’s choices differ...
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Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States
The presumption of innocence, the prohibition against pretrial punishment, and the right to an impartial jury—constitutional bedrocks of the American...
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Racial reckoning protests, the Capitol insurrection, and asymmetric social facts: A mixed-methods study of public opinion
ObjectivesTo test whether news images from George Floyd protests and the Capitol insurrection affected feelings about the police differentially...
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The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media
BackgroundWe are currently witnessing an ongoing drug overdose death epidemic in many nations linked to the distribution of illegally manufactured...
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Does the public want the police to stop, stop**? An experimental look at the impact of outcome data on public perceptions of police discretionary traffic stops
ObjectivesTo assess whether data on traffic stop outcomes causally impacts public approval of discretionary traffic stops as a crime control strategy.
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Police Violence, Racism, and Anti-racism: Opinion Struggles in the Portuguese Daily Newspapers
This chapter analyses opinion articles on a case of police violence and racism, known as “the Alfragide Police Station Case”, in the Portuguese daily...
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The Sha** of Opinion: Literacy, Media, and Folk Devils in Eighteenth-Century London
This chapter investigates the key theme of mass media, charting the birth of what Habermas referred to as the public sphere, a development which...
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Parole Boards, Public Confidence, and the Public
In this chapter, we examine the existing or possible strategies that parole authorities regard as having value for increasing public confidence and...
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Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere The Social Discovery of Moral Panic in Eighteenth Century London
Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere draws on criminology and social theory to explore and expand social historical themes in the analysis of...
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Engaging with an Emotional Public in a Precarious Time
In this chapter, we make some observations about the overarching findings from the study. We then make some concluding comments on the way forward...
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A Comparison of Public and Police Perceptions of the Seriousness of Crime
The seriousness of crime is a key concept in criminal policy. Given the scarcity of empirical assessments, public perceptions of crime seriousness...
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Measurement of public opinions on security: the case from Malaysia
The measurement of security perception is necessary as one of the tools to assess the effectiveness of security policies and enforcement in a...
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“100% They Are Destroying Our Beautiful Town”: Toxic Conversations About Homelessness on Public Facebook Community Groups
In this paper, we use a qualitative content analysis to understand how homelessness is discussed in 14 public Facebook groups from three Canadian...
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Public perceptions of courts and cooperation with police
The police depend upon public cooperation to effectively control crime. Understanding factors that impact people’s willingness to cooperate with the...
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Public Punitiveness Towards Individuals with Sexual Convictions in Italy: A Vignette Study
Sexual violence is among the offences on which the public has expressed the greatest alarm and punitiveness and towards which more severe norms and...
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What’s Wrong with Penal Populism? Politics, the Public, and Criminological Expertise
This article discusses “penal populism” and its conflict with criminological expertise. It considers the proper balance between professional...
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Public Criminology: A Conversation
In our conversations about the challenges facing Criminology, what has surfaced repeatedly is the question of responsibility and our own positions of...