Rethinking Public Opinion in Penal Policymaking
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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Brown (0000-0003-0825-8199, Niagara University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 601-613 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2012.00481.x |
| OpenAlex | W1488161135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 60 |
Public opinion is often described as a powerful force in penal policymaking in the USA. Unfortunately, research on public opinion in penal policymaking has been limited by inattention to a number of important variables: definitions of public opinion, individual and interpersonal constructions of public opinion by political leaders themselves, state differences in historical contexts and political cultures regarding public engagement and political influence, and diversity in the roles of public opinion at different levels of government. This paper considers current dilemmas in this area of inquiry and reviews recent research in order to highlight potentially fruitful new directions for research
Diversity (politics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Interpersonal communication · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Public policy · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Law · Public Administration
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Second Edition
The Perils of Federalism
The Rational Public
The Culture of Control
Tides of Consent
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Constructing the political spectacle
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
The Philosophy and Politics of Punishment and Sentencing
Making Crime Pay
The Politics of Imprisonment
On Democracy
Penal Populism
Governing Through Crime
The Prison and the Gallows
The pulse of democracy
The Legislation of Crime and Delinquency
Beyond Public Opinion Polls
Penal Policy Making
The politics of punishing
Beyond populist punitiveness
Punishment and democracy
Constructing the public will
The dog that did not bark
Explanations of American punishment policies
Engaging with penal populism
Penal populism in New Zealand
The Causes and Consequences of Prison Growth in the United States
Imprisonment Rates and the New Politics of Criminal Punishment
The Illusion of Public Opinion
Imprisonment in America
Elite versus citizen attitudes on capital punishment
Is rehabilitation dead? The myth of the punitive public
Interest groups in the criminal justice process
Public vs. elite opinion on correctional reform
The Social Sources of Americans' Punitiveness
Crime and Human Rights—how Political Paranoia, Protestant Fundamentalism, and Constitutional Obsolescence Combined to Devastate Black America
The Culture of High Crime Societies
Public Opinion Versus Public Judgment About Crime
The Decline in Support for Penal Welfarism. Evidence of Support among the Elite for Punitive Segregation
U. S. Congressman as Enterprise
U. S. State Legislators' Opinions and Perceptions of Constituency Attitudes
Lumpers and Splitters
Public Opinion in the American States
Opinion and Policy
Public Opinion and Public Opinion Polling
State Politics and the Right to Counsel
The Misperception of Public Opinion Toward Capital Punishment
Setting the Public Agenda
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |