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The Relationship Between Social and Political Attitudes and Punitiveness
This chapter draws together the previous three distinct chapters and examines the variation in public attitudes towards the different groups of...
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Punitiveness toward social distancing deviance in the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from two national experiments
ObjectiveThis study sought to understand how the public perceived new offenses in a time of public health crisis—social distancing deviance in the...
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Incarceration Trends in Italy Between Rising ‘Punitiveness’ and ‘Penal Moderation’
The article analyses Italian incarceration trends and the impact of prison population increases on the criminal punishment system as a whole. “
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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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Politics, Punitiveness, and Problematic Populations Public Perceptions of 'Scroungers', 'Unruly' Children, and ‘Good for Nothings’
This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment. Punitiveness has been the focus...
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From Punitiveness to Authoritarianism: Examining the Sources of Public Support for the Use of State Violence in Latin America
Prior work on the sources of public punitiveness and the expansion of the penal state emphasizes the importance of various anxieties associated with...
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The Long-Term Trajectories of Punitiveness Towards Criminal Rule-Breakers: Government Policies, Political Discourse, and Public Sentiment
This chapter focuses on exploring the long-term trends in punitiveness towards criminal rule-breakers by considering policies, political discourse,...
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Crime trend perceptions, negative emotions, and public punitiveness: a survey experiment of information treatment
ObjectivesPublic punitiveness is closely related to the expansion of the US penal system. Prior studies have examined inaccurate crime trend...
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Student-Athlete Male-Perpetrated Sexual Assault Against Men: Racial Disparities in Perceptions of Culpability and Punitiveness
Racial disparities in perceptions of sexual assault incidents have largely focused on male-perpetrated violence against women. However, in some...
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Modeling Determinants of Individual Punitiveness in a Late Modern Perspective: Data from Japan
There is a growing trend to both theoretically and empirically explain public punitiveness from a general social theory of late modernity. Yet,...
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Is compassion the flip side of punitiveness? Incorporating COVID-19 crisis in experimental vignettes to examine support for visitation and vaccination in prison
ObjectivesThe public hold both punitive and pragmatic attitudes toward prison policy. Yet it is unclear whether the public supports compassionate...
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Conclusion
This chapter draws together the main arguments of the book and outlines the empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions. This chapter...
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Introduction
‘Punitiveness’ has been the focus of increasing criminological attention in recent decades. This book extends this focus by taking a...
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Exploring Attitudes Towards Problematic Populations
This chapter outlines what is known about punitiveness towards the three different groups of rule-breakers. Punitiveness towards lawbreakers suggests...
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Teen Courts as Alternative Justice? Teens’ Carceral Habitus and the Reproduction of Social Inequality
Teen courts are one branch of a specialized, “alternative” justice system that promises a pathway out of the criminal justice system. Teen courts...
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Cheating the System? Punitive Attitudes Towards Rule-Breaking Welfare Claimants
This chapter repeats the analyses conducted in Chapter 7 , but this time with the focus on rule-breaking...
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The Need to Punish? Punitive Attitudes Towards Rule-Breaking School Pupils
This chapter examines the prevalence of punitive attitudes towards rule-breaking school children asking the questions: how punitive are contemporary...
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The Global Rise of Criminal Background Checks
The extensive use of criminal background checks—the request for information on prior convictions for non-judicial purposes—creates obstacles to a...
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Attitudinal schemas and academy training receptivity: a quasi-experimental study of prison officers
ObjectivesThis study aimed to assess whether the receptivity of prison officers toward academy training differs based on their views of...
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Normalization, Punishment and Exceptionalism: What Do Normalized Prison Conditions Teach Us About Societies?
One basic truth about studying normalization is that it tells us something about life in prison as much as about life outside prison. The concept...