Attribution, Salience, and Attitudes toward Criminal Sanctioning
| Autor: | John B. Cullen, Richard A. Mathers, Gregory A. Clark, Francis T. Cullen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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Punishment media_common.quotation_subject 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Punitive damages Poison control Human factors and ergonomics Suicide prevention Pathology and Forensic Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Attribution Psychology Law Social psychology General Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Criminal justice media_common |
| Zdroj: | Criminal Justice and Behavior. 12:305-331 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3594 0093-8548 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0093854885012003003 |
| Popis: | Building upon the work of Stinchcombe, Taylor et al., the present research attempts to assess the impact of victimization, salience, and attribution on four measures of criminal sanctioning: general punishment, rehabilitation, capital punishment, and the punishment of white-collar crime. Utilizing a sample drawn from Galesburg, Illinois, our analysis revealed that attitudes were not significantly influenced by being a victim or by crime salience. In contrast, our measure of attribution (what a person “attributed” the cause of crime to) had consistent effects across the scales, with those having a positivist orientation being less punitive and more in favor of rehabilitation. When members of criminal justice related occupations were included in the analysis, these results generally continued to persist. These findings thus suggest that attributional processes and, in particular, the way in which people explain crime may be important determinants of the attitudes that those both inside and outside the criminal justice system hold toward sanctioning policy. |
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