A sociological perspective on public support for capital punishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9053000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles W Thomas, Charles Thomas (0000-0001-9998-6698), Samuel C Foster |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 641-657 |
| Publication date | 1975-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9432 • E-ISSN: 1939-0025 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1975.tb01192.x |
| PMID | 1180345 |
| OpenAlex | W2028749723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 33 |
Conceptualizations of public support for the death penalty that suggest that punitiveness, desire for vengenance, authoritarianism, polital conservatism, or other characteristics generally held in low esteem by many in the academic and research communities are the primary or most significant predictors of citizen responses to this issue are challenged. It is proposed instead that fear of crime, perceptions of increasing crime rates, a belief in the efficacy of punishment as a means of deterrence, and a willingness to employ punishment as a response to criminality have a far more important causal role than has previously been recognized
Authoritarianism · Capital punishment · Conservatism · Criminology · Democracy · Deterrence (psychology) · Fear of crime · Perception · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
Evidence for a Big Brother Effect in Survey-Based Fear of Crime Research
Race, Conceptions of Crime and Justice, and Support for the Death Penalty
Social Hierarchy and the Death Penalty
Socialpsychological Processes Underlying Attitudes Toward Legal Punishment
Studying American Legal Culture
Societal threat, authoritarianism, conservatism, and U.S. state death penalty sentencing (1977-2004)
Demanding More Severe Punishment
Racial Prejudice and Support for the Death Penalty by Whites
Attribution, Salience, and Attitudes toward Criminal Sanctioning
Is the Death Penalty Debate Really Dead? Contrasting Capital Punishment Support in Canada and the United States
Gangs, violence, and fear
Support for the Death Penalty in Cases of Rape and Sexual Assault
St-Century trends in support for the death penalty among Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics
Emotions about crime and attitudes to punishment
Economic anxieties, fear of crime, and punitive attitudes in Latin America
Punitive attitudes toward criminals
Ignored Racism
Bolstering an Illusory Majority
Support for the Death Penalty; Instrumental Response to Crime, or Symbolic Attitude
Belief systems and attitudes toward the death penalty and other punishments
Authoritarianism and Support for the Death Penalty
Retribution and capital punishment
The place of public fear in sentencing and correctional policy
Capital punishment preferences for special offender populations
The enduring racial divide in death penalty support
Knowledge and death penalty opinion
Public support for the courts
Death penalty views in China, Japan and the U.S
Reasons for death penalty attitudes among Chinese citizens
The age of death
Hardening of the Attitudes
Protestant Fundamentalism and the Retributive Doctrine of Punishment
Severity of Societal Response to Crime
Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment
Dynamic Representation(s)
Capital punishment and public opinion in thepost-Furmanera
Assessing the instrumental and symbolic elements in attitudes toward the death penalty using a sample of Puerto Rican students
Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes
Exploring the effects of attitudes toward the death penalty on capital sentencing verdicts
Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment
Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs
Multiple regression in behavioral research
Crime, punishment, and deterrence
The addict and the law.
Beliefs, attitudes, and values
Selective Factors in Capital Punishment
Crime and Punishment
Public Opinion and the Death Penalty
Deterrence
The Deterrent Influence of the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice
Race, Judicial Discretion, and the Death Penalty
Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? A Study in Social Valuation
Four-Variable Causal Models and Partial Correlations
The Polls
Crime, victims, and the police
Further Observations on Asymmetric Causal Models
The Deterrent Influence of the Death Penalty
Sanctions and Deviance
Punishment and Crime
Crime Rates and Legal Sanctions
Social Reactions to 'Crimes without Victims
Public Attitudes toward a Form of White Collar Crime
Public Sense of Justice and Judicial Practice
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,84 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2026 (50) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |