Public Opinion and the Governance of Punishment in Democratic Political Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9758089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franklin E Zimring (Criminal Justice Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), David T Johnson (0000-0002-5985-337X, University of Hawaii System) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 605 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 265-280 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716205285949 |
| OpenAlex | W2103596035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 37 |
It is unlikely that hostile attitudes about criminals or beliefs that punishments for crime were too lenient were the major causes of the explosive increase in punishments in the United States after 1970. Public hostility toward criminals has been a consistent theme in this country for a long time, but it did not cause big increases in imprisonment before 1970 in the United States or large expansions of incarceration elsewhere. In this article, the authors argue that growth in the salience of crime as a citizen concern and increasing public distrust of government competence and legitimacy were two of a number of changes that transformed ever-present hostile attitudes into a dynamic force in American politics. Negative attitudes toward offenders are a necessary condition for anticrime crusades, but they are always present. It was the addition of fear and distrust into the law and politics of punishment setting that produced the perfect storm of punitive expansion
Criminology · Distrust · Hostility · Imprisonment · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Punishment (psychology · Punitive damages · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
La punitividad del público como reacción instrumental y expresiva ante las amenazas al comienzo del siglo XXI. Evidencias del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires
Supporting the Iron Fist
Penal Culture in Ireland
Emotions, Crime and Justice
Scandinavian Acceptionalism? Developments in Community Sanctions in Norway
Explaining imprisonment in Europe
The proliferating pains of imprisonment
Serving the Public Good?—A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Private Prisons and For-Profit Incarceration in the United States
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing
Crime, Justice, and Social Order
The Next Frontier
Religion, Punitive Sentiment, and the Mediating Effect of Racial Resentment
Authoritarianism, Social Dominance, and Contesting Human Rights in Latin America
The shadow of carceral collectivism
The Emergence of Penal Extremism in California
Public Support for Getting Tough on Corporate Crime
Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Policy
Researching and explaining the punitive
Lies, distortion and what doesn’t work
The Origins of Mass Incarceration
Creating the Will to Change
What is to be done with public criminology
Banishing justice
Protect Individual Punishment Decisions From Mandatory Penalties
The local and the legal
Public Sentiment, Political Action, and Governmental Crime Policy—on the Origins and Significance of Mixed Feelings
The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration
The Punitive Public? Exploring the Opinion-Election Connection in Criminal Justice Policy
Economic individualism and punitive attitudes
US penal-reform catalysts, drivers, and prospects
Ice cream and incarceration
Are criminal convictions a public matter? The USA and Spain
Good governance, political experiences, and public support for mandatory sentencing
Moving beyond punitivism
What’s violence got to do with it? Inequality, punishment, and state failure in US politics
Punitiveness and atrocity
Democratization, politics and punishment in Argentina
Punitive penal preferences and support for welfare
For penal moderation
Democracy and punishment
Power to the people
Resisting punitiveness in Europe
Flattening the curve in jails and prisons
Russia, the death penalty, and Europe
Critical Junctures and Conditions of Change
Prison and Democracy
Class, Race and Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America
Rethinking populism and its threats and possibilities
Punitiveness in Slovenia
Crossing the line’
Historical Contingencies and the Evolving Importance of Race, Violent Crime, and Region in Explaining Mass Incarceration in the United States
Simmel, the Police Form and the Limits of Democratic Policing
Democracy and Criminal Justice in Cross-National Perspective
The criminal law and public health context of drug policy support among young people in the European Union
Policing, Recognition, and Belonging
Privatizing Punishment
The public salience of crime, 1960–2014
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime
Crime And Punishment
The Life Sentence and Parole
Programming Presidential Agendas
Out‐party, out of luck
Playing Politics with Sex Offender Laws
Penal Populism and the Public Thermostat
Migration threat priming and Macedonian public preferences towards executive powers
Hiding in Plain Sight
The Public's Increasing Punitiveness and Its Influence on Mass Incarceration in the United States
Crime in Televised Presidential Campaign Ads
Who Controls Criminal Law? Racial Threat and the Adoption of State Sentencing Law, 1975 to 2012
Punitivismo y rasgos sociopolíticos
Containing the Rainbow Coalition
Four elephants in the room
The politics of street crime
Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control
Crime Is Not the Problem
The Culture of Control
The Craft of Justice
Community Policing Chicago Style
Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers
Making Crime Pay
Politics, Punishment, and Populism
Crime and Politics
Punishment and DemocracyThree Strikes and You're Out in California
Harsh Justice
The Great American Crime Decline
Striking out in democracy
Beyond populist punitiveness
The dog that did not bark
In Pursuit of the Vernacular
Constructing the New Political Criminology
Too Much Democracy or Too Much Crime? Lessons from California's Three-Strikes Law
Against Excess
Against Excess
The Politics of Law and Order
The Legal System
Politics, Public Policy, and Street Crime
Toward a Principled Basis for Federal Criminal Legislation
Persons and Masks of the Law
Power, politics, and crime
Sexual Violence, Victim Advocacy, and Republican Criminology
Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers
Everyday Justice
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |