Retributive Support for International Punishment and Torture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Liberman (0000-0002-9083-7933, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 285-306 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002712445970 |
| OpenAlex | W2105032301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 58 |
This article tests the hypothesis that ordinary people favor punishing badly behaved foreign actors to make them “pay” for their crimes rather than purely to protect national security interests. In an undergraduate sample, people’s endorsement of the principle of retributive punishment was related to their support for punishing transgressor states and their support for torturing detainees, controlling for partisanship, ideology, humanitarian and security values, and beliefs about the efficacy of force. The interstate transgression scenarios included a state sponsoring terror attacks against a rival, a nuclear proliferator, and a small, unnamed aggressor. Retributive dispositions were also strongly related to support for the death penalty, which helps explain prior findings that American death penalty supporters are unusually bellicose toward foreign wrongdoers
Criminology · Economic Justice · Human rights · Ideology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Punishment (psychology · Retributive justice · Sociology · State (computer science · Torture · Computer Science · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · War, Ethics, and Justification
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Partisan Differences in Voters’ Desire for Punishment in Response to Politicians’ Moral Transgressions
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Revenge in US Public Support for War against Iraq
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Party Identification and Core Political Values
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Intergroup emotions
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |