A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Conceptualizations of public support for the death penalty that suggest that punitiveness, desire for vengeance, authoritarianism, political conservatism, or other characteristics generally held in low esteem by many in the academic and research communities are the primary or most significant predic...

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Conservatism
Crime
Crime/Crimes (see also Criminal)
Criminal Psychology
Fear
Florida
Homicide
Human
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Political Processes
Public Opinion
Punishment
Rape
Sampling Studies
Social control/Social controls
Sociology
United States/US
Violence
title A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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