Crime Salience and Public Willingness to Pay for Child Saving and Juvenile Punishment

Baker, Thomas; Cleary, Hayley M. D.; Pickett, Justin T.; Gertz, Marc

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“…Cochran et al, 2003;Grasmick et al, 1993;Johnson, 2009;King & Wheelock, 2007;Unnever & Cullen, 2010). Such findings, in conjunction with the results of current investigation, raise the possibility that gender may be especially consequential for attitudes toward youth justice policies because females may, on average, hold stronger orientations toward child saving and, more generally, the care and protection of children than males (see Baker et al, 2014;Mears et al, 2007). Research is needed that examines this possibility as well as other potential explanations for the differential effects of gender and other factors, such as emotional fear of crime, on views about juvenile punishments and general punitiveness.…”

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Racial Crime Stereotypes and Offender Juvenility

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Recent theoretical advancements of the racial threat model of punitiveness suggest that because youthful offending has driven crime trends in recent decades, and because racially exclusive conceptions of childhood have historically structured public opinion on juvenile justice, Black criminal stereotypes may be especially consequential for attitudes toward juvenile punishments. Building on this work, the current study uses national survey data to examine whether the strength of the relationship between Black criminal stereotypes and support for punitive policies varies according to whether punishments are targeted toward juvenile delinquents or criminals in general. We find that Black criminal stereotypes are positively associated with punitive attitudes and that the magnitude of this effect is statistically identical in the cases of youth-specific and nonyouth-specific sanctions. Thus, the results suggest that racialized support for punitive crime policies is not influenced by the juvenility of the offender.

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“…Politicians and policymakers look to public opinion polls to determine which changes to pursue, and the public in certain states directly enacts policy change through ballot initiatives (Frost & Monteiro, 2011). Accordingly, public awareness and support can be an effective precursor to policy change regarding collateral consequences (Baker, Cleary, Pickett, & Gertz, 2016). This study represents the first step in this process by ascertaining public knowledge in Pennsylvania.…”

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Collateral Consequences for Juveniles in the Justice System: Change in Perceptions after an Educational Intervention

Janssen

Wagage

Cole

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Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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There is a dearth of empirical research investigating public awareness or perceptions of the impact of collateral consequences of juvenile justice system involvement on youths' lives. The current study recruited 555 Pennsylvania residents through Amazon Mechanical Turk to participate in a brief, educational intervention on collateral consequences of system involvement. Participants read a short vignette about a hypothetical youth who was adjudicated delinquent in Pennsylvania, answered 20 knowledge-based questions, and provided pre-and postintervention ratings of the impact the delinquency finding would have on the youth's life in the short term and in the long term. Results of linear mixed model analysis revealed significant fixed effects of both phase b = .62, p < .001, 95% CI [.47, .78] and timing (before the youth turns age 18 and after the youth turns age 18), b = -.98, p < .001, 95% CI [-1.18, -.78], on impact ratings (i.e., how big an impact a juvenile adjudication will have on the youth's life). Participants provided incorrect responses to approximately half of collateral consequences, indicating a gap in knowledge. Findings from the

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“…More recently, scholars have used methods that probe support for rehabilitation by using forced‐choice questions that pit treatment/prevention versus punishment/imprisonment and by assessing the public's willingness to pay for competing policy alternatives. Support for rehabilitation has consistently been found in these studies (e.g., Baker, Cleary, Pickett, and Gertz, ; Baker, Metcalfe, Berenblum, Aviv, and Gertz, ; Cohen, Rust, and Steen, ; Nagin et al., ; Piquero and Steinberg, ).…”

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Rehabilitation in a Red State

Thielo

Cullen

Cohen

et al. 2015

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary Based on a 2013 survey of 1,001 likely voters in Texas, public support for correctional reform in a “red state” was examined. Four major conclusions were revealed. First, the respondents displayed strong support for rehabilitation. Second, at least for nonviolent and/or drug offenders, the sample members showed a clear preference for the use of alternatives to incarceration as opposed to imprisonment. Third, when asked about a specific policy reform that used treatment rather than prison for nonviolent drug offenders, more than eight in ten Texans approved of the measure, and strong majorities endorsed various rationales for it. Fourth, with some minor variation, the respondents revealed substantial consensus across demographic groups in their embrace of rehabilitation and correctional reform. Policy Implications With the growth of mass imprisonment arguably at its end, the existence of strong public support for correctional reform even in the major red state of Texas, suggests that a new “sensibility” about crime control has taken hold. There is now an emergent national consensus that the overuse of incarceration is unsustainable and that low‐risk offenders no longer should be sanctioned with a prison sentence. The American public, in Texas and beyond, is willing to support a policy agenda that includes offender treatment, prison downsizing, and alternatives to incarceration. The challenge for elected officials is to take advantage of this ideological space and to pursue this agenda. Notably, politicians in Texas and in other red states are using this opportunity to implement correctional policy reforms. The data in this study indicate that they will face no public backlash and, if anything, will gain political capital for their efforts.

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Crime Salience and Public Willingness to Pay for Child Saving and Juvenile Punishment

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Racial Crime Stereotypes and Offender Juvenility

Racial Crime Stereotypes and Offender Juvenility

Collateral Consequences for Juveniles in the Justice System: Change in Perceptions after an Educational Intervention

Rehabilitation in a Red State

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