Public Opinion and Crime Prevention: A Review of International Trends

Roberts, Julian V.; Hastings, Ross

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398823.013.0024

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“…Results of such vignette-based studies have usually indicated that people are not as punishment-centric as could be inferred based on general attitude surveys. Their punishment preferences are often close to the punitive practices applied in their country (Balvig, Gunnlaugsson, Jerre, Tham, & Kinnunen, 2015;Gelb, 2006;Roberts & Hastings, 2012).…”

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Attitudes and public punishment preferences: Finnish results of Scandinavian sense of justice research

Kääriäinen

2018

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Opinion polls have repeatedly shown that populations favour severe penalties for offenders. However, surveys using a case vignette method, where the attributes of the case described to the respondents are varied, produce more versatile results. Such research gives a nuanced picture of punitive attitudes. In this study, the sentence decisions of laypeople who are informed about the offender's criminal history, ethnic background, gender, social issues and substance abuse were examined. A representative mail survey collected in Finland as part of Scandinavian sense of justice research was used as empirical data. Respondents were presented with six criminal cases and asked to determine sentences for them. All respondents received the same vignettes, but the background attributes of the offenders varied randomly. This study showed that all the background attributes had a clear connection to the sentence decisions. Considering these results, the idea of a 'general punitive attitude', which is commonly used in academic literature, appears to be too simple of a way to look at the relationship between attitudes and punishment decisions.

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Attitudes and public punishment preferences: Finnish results of Scandinavian sense of justice research

Kääriäinen

2018

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“…Public support for spending more taxes on drug treatment for nonviolent offenders as well as on police also ranked higher than support for building more prisons but not as high as support for youth prevention programs. Other contingent valuation studies show public support for allocating money to early prevention rather than to building more prisons (see Cullen et al 2007;Roberts and Hastings 2012).…”

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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Crime Prevention Programs

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Farrington²,

Gowar³

2015

Crime and Justice

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“…But there is little research on the attitudes of professionals in the criminal justice system and the treatment sector towards QCT and punishment of drugaddicted offenders (e.g., De Wree, De Ruyver, Verpoest, & Colman, 2008 ). Roberts and Hastings ( 2012 ) argue that it is important to know about the public knowledge in the area of crime prevention and crime control, "with a view to educating the public about the most effi cient responses to crime" (p. 488). This argument is much more important for professionals in the criminal justice system.…”

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