Tempering the Taste for Vengeance
Information About Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6244229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernando G Cafferata (0000-0001-9986-4893, Inter-American Development Bank, Brasília, Brazil), Daniel W Gingerich (0000-0001-6413-6917, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA), Carlos Scartascini (0000-0001-7031-3983, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1506-1536 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4140 • E-ISSN: 1552-3829 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00104140221141836 |
| OpenAlex | W3217537680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 60 |
Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. Harsh penalties are often demanded by citizens, making them attractive to politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the public. In this article, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information about the prison population shapes tastes for punitive anti-crime policies. Respondents in the treatment group received information about the low educational attainment of prisoners. This information led to substantial changes in policy preferences. Tasked with allocating resources to anti-crime policies using a fixed budget, treated respondents assigned between 20% and 50% more to socially oriented anti-crime policies (relative to punitive policies) than respondents in the control group, and they reduced their support for “ iron fist” policing. Our findings suggest that providing information to citizens might change the policy equilibrium in the Americas
Crime control · Criminal justice · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economics · Political science · Population · Prison · Public economics · Punitive damages · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography
The Costs of Crime and Violence
Collateral Consequences of Punishment
Better Schools, Less Crime?
The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America
Prisons Do Not Reduce Recidivism
Do Harsher Prison Conditions Reduce Recidivism? A Discontinuity-based Approach
The Effect of Education on Crime
Right on Crime
Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending
The State of the Prisons
Beyond Public Opinion Polls
The populism of fear
Empathetic identification and punitiveness
Crime Victimization and Public Support for Democracy
Crime and Erosion of Trust
The Quality of Employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries
Crime and Punishment
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
On the social psychology of the psychological experiment
A heavy hand or a helping hand? Information provision and citizen preferences for anti-crime policies
The Public's Increasing Punitiveness and Its Influence on Mass Incarceration in the United States
The Verdict is in
Fear of Crime or Fear of Life? Public Insecurities in Chile
Confianza en la policía en Chile
Demand Effects in Survey Experiments
Crime Victimization and Political Participation
The Politics of Police Image in Chile
The Dynamics of Poverty in Chile
A Taste for Punishment
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |