Attitudes to crime and criminal justice: Findings from the 1998 British Crime Survey: Home Office research study 200

Mattinson, Joanna; Mirrlees-Black, Catriona

doi:10.1037/e454372008-001

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“…In this respect, the Dutch public is not much different from that of other Western countries (cf. Barber and Doob 2004;Hough and Roberts 1998;Hutton 2005;Mattinson and Mirrlees-Black 2000;Roberts and Hough 2002). However, in recent years, research has accumulated to build a strong case against the validity of such survey measurement of public opinion on crime and punishment (see, for overviews, Roberts and Hough 2005;Roberts et al 2003).…”

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Bridging the gap between judges and the public? A multi-method study

2007

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This article examines the gap between Dutch judges and the public in terms of preferred severity of sentences. It focuses on one particular explanation usually given for the gap: the lack of case-specific, detailed information on the part of the general public. Findings from three studies are reported and combined: (a) a survey among a sample from the Dutch population (N=2,127), (b) a sentencing experiment with judges in Dutch criminal courts (N=180), and (c) a sentencing experiment, using the same case materials as with judges, but now with a sample from the Dutch population (N=917). Results show that providing the public with detailed case information indeed reduces severity of sentences preferred. Moreover, those members of the public who were given short and unbalanced newspaper reports preferred much harsher sentences than did those who were given the full case files. However, despite such a reduction in punitiveness as a result of information, the public's preferred sentences remain much more punitive than judges' sentences pertaining to exactly the same case files.

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“…En tercer lugar, los dos grupos también coinciden en la opinión respecto a la función social de las MAP (Sparks, 2000;Mattison y Mirrless-Black, 2000). Consideran que las más útiles son el trabajo en beneficio de la comunidad y la sumisión a tratamiento, tanto en la reinserción como en la reducción de los delitos.…”

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“…(1984) analizaron la actitud de la sociedad hacia la rehabilitación de los delincuentes y los centros penitenciarios, observando como las personas más punitivas eran también las más rígidas y conservadoras, y se mostraron más pesimistas respecto a la rehabilitación de los delincuentes, pero no aparecieron diferencias significativas con los no punitivos, en aceptar la aplicación de MAP en determinados tipos penales. Además, estudios sobre la BCS británica (Mattison y Mirrless-Black, 2000) y la Inspección Británica del Crimen (Pennington y Lloyd-Bostock, 1987) mos-traron una preferencia pública hacia sentencias dirigidas a la comunidad frente al ingreso penitenciario, así como un elevado nivel de indulgencia en las víctimas y una cuantiosa información respecto a las MAP.…”

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“…Siguiendo a Gergen y Gergen (1986) y desde una perspectiva jurídica, las víctimas de actos criminales serían consideradas el colectivo social más reacio y contrario a la utilización de las MAP y, por ello, las defensoras de unas medidas sociales de privación de libertad y de la utilización del castigo como medio compensador del sufrimiento padecido (Dull y Wint, 1997), si bien diversas investigaciones contradicen este planteamiento (Hough y Moxon, 1985;Mattison y Mirrless-Black, 2000).…”

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Efectos de la victimización sobre la percepción social de la prisión y las medidas alternativas

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2009

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ResumenEl artículo presenta una investigación realizada sobre una muestra de 734 residentes en Barcelona ciudad, para conocer la percepción de las personas que han sido víctimas de delitos y las que no sobre la prisión, las medidas alternativas a la prisión (MAP), su función social en la reinserción del delincuente y sus efectos sobre la reducción de la delincuencia. También se analizó el conocimiento sobre las MAP de forma espontánea y sugerida.Los resultados mostraron cómo las víctimas sostienen una visión más positiva de las MAP frente a la prisión y un mayor conocimiento de las mismas. Por el contrario, no mostraron diferencias en la percepción de la prisión como medio de reinserción o reducción de la delincuencia. Palabras clave: reinserción social, sociología del delito, delincuencia, actitudes sociales. Abstract. The effects of victimization on social perception of prison and alternative measuresThis research was made in the city of Barcelona with a sample of 734 subjects. It analyzes the vision of victims of crime and no victims about the social effects of prison and alternative measures in the criminal reinsertion and the crime reduction. The second part of this article emphasizes the social degree of knowledge about the alternative measures.The results show that the victims have a positive vision of alternative measures in front of the traditional prison and a better information and knowledge. But both groups didn't show differences in the vision of prison as a means of rehabilitation or crime reduction.

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“…Research on attribution has shown that people make a distinction between responsibility and blameworthiness. This means that while one may be responsible for a crime, there are This explains why some empirical studies have shown that a prior record is related to decreased support in restorative sanctions (Mattinson & Mirrlees-Black, 2000).…”

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Public responsiveness to victim's recommendations in their sentencing decisions: Role of victim's race, victim impact statement and judge's instructions

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2011

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Attitudes to crime and criminal justice: Findings from the 1998 British Crime Survey: Home Office research study 200

Cited by 61 publications

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Bridging the gap between judges and the public? A multi-method study

Bridging the gap between judges and the public? A multi-method study

Efectos de la victimización sobre la percepción social de la prisión y las medidas alternativas

Public responsiveness to victim's recommendations in their sentencing decisions: Role of victim's race, victim impact statement and judge's instructions

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