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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"punitiveness"”.
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Exploring Military Service as an Alternative Sanction: Evidence From Inmates' Perspectives
… large body of research exists that examines the punitiveness of prison compared to a wide variety of alternative sanctions. Generally, this research finds that there are numerous demographic and contextual differences in the way that people experience the punitiveness of prison. In this paper, I …
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Parental influence on political development among late adolescents
… conservatism, religious fundamentalism, and punitiveness), and political identity. Results indicated that high levels of maternal acceptance were related to a conservative political party affiliation, high scoring on overall political conservatism, and high levels of religious fundamentalism. …
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Race, Gender, and County Context in Support for Harsh Punishments across the U.S.
… attitudinal gaps according to the form of punitiveness under consideration, I employ two measures of this concept: support for the death penalty and attitudes about the harshness of courts. Analyses provide some evidence that race, gender, and context interact to shape attitudes about …
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Toward Extended Situational Crisis Communication Theory: Include Visuals, Prior Performance, and Framing Devices
… negative emotion, c) negative word of mouth, d) punitiveness, and e) purchase intention. Visual stimuli manipulation was created using pictures relating to actions (e.g., cleaning spilled oil) and damages (e.g., dolphin carcass). Distinctiveness stimuli manipulation was created using written …
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Factors Influencing the Attitudes of College Students Toward Rehabilitation or Punishment of Criminal Offenders
… possession) and potential factors that influence punitiveness. An individual's attitude toward each crime was measured on a punishment-rehabilitation continuum. A survey was given to 1,427, randomly-chosen Texas State University undergraduate and graduate students. Findings: The study found that a …
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Public criminology: Its social construction and policy implications
… research on public crime control attitudes like punitiveness and rehabilitation lacks a theory which links these attitudes to social background. The study of public criminology addresses this need by first identifying public attributional styles regarding the causes of crime, then forming …
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CAN SOCIAL PROTESTS CHANGE LOCAL SENTENCING PATTERNS? EVIDENCE FROM THE 2015 BALTIMORE UPRISING
… This study analyzes (a) whether the overall punitiveness of courts changed after the event, (b) whether the change disparately impacted different racial and ethnic groups, and (c) whether these effects vary geographically across the state of Maryland.
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A study of the relationship of preschoolers' perceptions of parental attributes to behaviors exhibited in nursery school
… categorized as 1) control, 2) acceptance, 3) punitiveness, and 4) overindulgence. The subjects were thirty-two males and ten females of normal intelligence. They were Caucasian, from nuclear type family structure, and represented lower middle class socio-economic status.The subjects were …
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The Expanding Definition of Crime and Its Effect on the Individual: A Multilevel Modeling Analysis
… crime to violent crime, a static indicator of punitiveness, while the PPI is a measure of the rate of growth towards or away from a more punitive approach to law enforcement. The PSI and probation rates are two important factors for predicting incarceration rates, explaining 98.6% of the …
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Selection criteria and psychological adaptations to the ongoing dialysis and renal transplant programme
… dialysis sample showed significantly more extra-punitiveness than the transplant sample while the transplant sample showed a significantly higher level of intellectual functioning than the predialysis and long-term dialysis groups. These results show that (1) selection is possibly based on …
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Framing Terrorism: Implications for Public Opinion, Civil Liberties, and Counterterrorism Policies
The competing values of national security and civil liberties have been contested as conflicting ideas during times of national emergencies and war, in which the canonical knowledge asserts that the temporary secession of civil liberties is sometimes necessary to protect national security. After …