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Predicting Israeli Public Support for Capital Punishment: Crime Type and Severity, Offender, Observer, and Victim Characteristics

Crime and delinquency, 2021
This study investigates whether crime type and severity, as well as offender, observer, and victim characteristics predict public attitudes towards capital punishment in Israel. We surveyed Israeli citizens by phone. A random and representative sample of
Keren Cohen-Louck, Inna Levy, S. Herzog
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Body Count Politics: Quantification, Secrecy, and Capital Punishment in China

Law and Social Inquiry, 2020
As quantification has become socially ubiquitous, the disclosure of numerical data emerges as a key feature of legal reform and global governance.
Tobias Smith
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Public Opinion of Capital Punishment: An Intersectional Analysis of Race, Gender, and Class Effects

Criminal Justice Review, 2019
Extant research on the demographic correlates of capital punishment opinion has separately analyzed race, gender, and class. Intersectionality has shown a flaw of this approach is that these characteristics overlap and interact to shape people’s ...
Adam Trahan   +2 more
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A Factful Perspective on Capital Punishment

Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2019
Substantial progress has been made towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment, and there are good reasons to believe that more progress is possible.
David T. Johnson
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Against Capital Punishment

, 2019
Against Capital Punishment offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment.
Benjamin S. Yost
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The nexus between attribution theory and racial attitudes: a test of racial attribution and public opinion of capital punishment

Criminal justice studies, 2018
Research has shown that attribution theory and racial attitudes are among the most consistent attitudinal predictors of capital punishment opinion. This study explores the overlap of these two constructs, racial attribution, and its ability to account ...
Adam Trahan, Kaleigh B. Laird
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Distrust and Empathy: Explaining the Lack of Support for Capital Punishment Among Minorities

Criminal Justice Review, 2018
Public opinion polls show that the majority of people in the United States support capital punishment but that is because the majority of White Americans support it. Research on the opinions of non-Whites consistently finds less support.
Wanda D. Foglia, Nadine M. Connell
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Does Capital Punishment Deter White‐Collar Crimes?

World Economics, 2018
This paper examines whether capital punishment, either directly or via a spillover effect, has a deterrent effect on white collar crimes. Using data on nearly 150 nations and various dimensions of capital punishment, including capital punishment for non ...
R. Goel, Ummad Mazhar
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